Oliveira, Eduardo Infante de2022-03-222022-03-222022Rev Port Cardiol. 2022 Mar;41(3):229-2300870-2551http://hdl.handle.net/10451/51903© 2022 Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. on behalf of Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).The recent and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has imposed major stresses and pressure for adaptation on healthcare systems, with high resource consumption focused on a single threat, and has compromised the accessibility of diagnosis and treatment in major health areas, with short and long-term consequences that are not yet fully understood. The current edition of the Journal presents the results of a multinational survey by the Stent-Save a Life (SSL) initiative that explores and illustrates the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the rate of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) in the setting of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).engjournal article10.1016/j.repc.2022.01.0012174-2030