Table 1. Out-of-hospital and inpatient care during COVID-19 pandemic in patients with inherited arrhythmias.

Out-of-hospital care

• Avoid emotional stress

• Practice good hygiene and physical distancing

• Check for the risk of social distancing

• Keep beta-blockers and antiarrhythmic drus, as appropriate

• Attention with alarm symptoms (syncope, presyncope and palpitations) and optimal pharmacological treatment and adherence to medication

Out-of-hospital and inpatient care

• Keep euthermia – fever should be treated early, especially in patients with LQTS2 and BrS

• Azithromycin and Hydroxychloroquine/Chloroquine must be discouraged in patients with LQTS

• Avoid the association of hydroxychloroquine with amiodarone or sotalol due to the risk of TdP

• The drugs that may lengthen the QT interval is available on www.credibledrugs.org

• Drugs interactions are available on www.online.epocrates.com

• Be aware of QT control protocols of each hospital

LQTS: Long QT syndrome, BrS: Brugada Syndrome, ARVC: arrhythmogenic right ventricle cardiomyopathy; TdP: Torsades de pointes.