ABC | Volume 115, Nº2, August 2020

Statement Position Statement of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology Department of Exercise Testing, Sports Exercise, Nuclear Cardiology, and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation (DERC/SBC) on Activities Within its Scope of Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic Development: Brazilian Society of Cardiology Department of Exercise Testing, Sports Exercise, Nuclear Cardiology, and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Norms and Guidelines Council (2020-2021): Brivaldo Markman Filho, Antonio Carlos Sobral Sousa, Aurora Felice Castro Issa, Bruno Ramos Nascimento, Harry Correa Filho, Marcelo Luiz Campos Vieira Norms and Guidelines Coordinator (2020-2021): Brivaldo Markman Filho Statement Authors: Gabriel Blacher Grossman, 1, 2 Carlos Alberto Cyrillo Sellera, 3,4 Carlos Alberto Cordeiro Hossri, 5, 6 L ara Terra F. Carreira, 7,8 Antônio Carlos Avanza Jr., 9,10 Pedro Ferreira de Albuquerque, 11,12 Mauricio Milani, 1 3 Luiz Eduardo Mastrocola, 5 L uiz Eduardo Fonteles Ritt, 14,1 5 O dilon Gariglio Alvarenga de Freitas, 16 Tales de Carvalho, 17,1 8 William Azem Chalela, 19,2 0 Nabil Ghorayeb, 5, 6 R omeu Sergio Meneghelo, 6,2 1 Mauricio Batista Nunes, 22 Salvador Manoel Serra 2 3 Hospital Moinhos de Vento, 1 Porto Alegre, RS – Brazil Clínica Cardionuclear, 2 Porto Alegre, RS – Brazil Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Santos, 3 Santos, SP – Brazil Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Metropolitana de Santos, 4 Santos, SP – Brazil Hospital do Coração (Hcor), 5 São Paulo, SP – Brazil Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia, 6 São Paulo, SP – Brazil Hospital Nossa Senhora do Pilar, 7 Curitiba, PR – Brazil Cardiologia Nuclear Curitiba, 8 Curitiba, PR – Brazil Universidade Vila Velha, 9 Vitória, ES – Brazil Clínica Centrocor, 10 Vitória/ES – Brazil Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 11 Maceió, AL – Brazil Hospital Memorial Arthur Ramos, 12 Maceió, AL – Brazil Clínica Fitcordis, 13 Brasília, DF – Brazil Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, 14 Salvador, BA – Brazil Hospital Cardiopulmonar, 15 Salvador, BA – Brazil Minascor Centro Médico, 16 Belo Horizonte, MG – Brazil Clínica de Prevenção e Reabilitação Cardiosport, 17 Florianópolis, SC – Brazil Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, 18 Florianópolis, SC – Brazil Instituto do Coração (Incor) do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (HCFM-USP), 19 São Paulo, SP – Brazil Sociedade Beneficente de Senhoras Hospital Sírio-Libanês, 20 São Paulo, SP – Brazil Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, 21 São Paulo, SP – Brazil Hospital Português, 22 Salvador, BA – Brazil Centro de Cardiologia do Exercício do Instituto Estadual de Cardiologia Aloysio de Castro (CCEx/IECAC), 23 Rio de Janeiro, RJ – Brazil This statement should be cited as: Grossman GB, Sellera CAC, Hossri CAC, Carreira LTF, Avanza Jr. AC, Albuquerque PF, et al. Position Statement of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology Department of Exercise Testing, Sports Exercise, Nuclear Cardiology, and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation (DERC/SBC) on Activities Within its Scope of Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Arq Bras Cardiol. 2020; 115(2):284-291. Note: These statements are for information purposes and are not to replace the clinical judgment of a physician, who must ultimately determine the appropriate treatment for each patient. Corresponding Address: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia – Av. Marechal Câmara, 360/330 – Centro – Rio de Janeiro – Postal Code: 20020-907. E-mail: diretrizes@cardiol.br DOI: https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20200797 284