Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2), has been spreading rapidly internationally. On the one hand, there is a certain correlation between the basic cardiovascular disease and the severity of COVID-19; on the other hand, the patients with severe and critical COVID-19 often have cardiovascular system-related clinical manifestations. This article reviews the interaction between COVID-19 and cardiovascular system, and the cardiovascular problems that may be encountered in the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19.

Objective To emphasize characteristics in professional education and focus on practical use and serve the regional economy.Methods We studied the patients from six hospitals in 2013,and compared the first ten diseases and their specialized nursing skills with our current teaching curriculum,teaching contents and the guidance of the national nursing qualification test.Results The current surgical nursing teaching curriculum could not match the common clinical tasks.Some common diseases did not include in our teaching plan;on the other hand,some rare diseases were still included.The current teaching content was not complete,with a lack of new nursing methods.It could not fulfill the need of practical clinical tasks.Conclusions In order to serve the practical use,the teaching contents must be modified based on the regional spectrum of disease and the changes in the treatment and the nursing methods.