Nurses and device representatives
Scrub nurses and device representatives are an integral part of EP
procedures and will remain as such. It is critical to avoid the loss of
highly specialized EP nurses in the event of illness or home quarantine,
therefore nurses ought to similarly stagger their hospital attendance to
prevent multiple concurrent staff losses.
In our laboratory, device representatives provide necessary functions
such as lead selection counsel, intraprocedural interrogations and
device programming. To limit risk, device companies have recommended
that their representatives no longer present to the hospital daily
unless requested for cases. We have assigned a different device company
technician to each day of the week and sharing this schedule with the
representatives (if a specific company’s proprietary algorithm function
is required). During cases, both device technicians and nurses should
maintain >6 feet distance from the patient and don
appropriate PPE.