Quarantine carries a dramatic psychological burden, and physicians are required to manage this aspect as well as the medical issues. Many patients may call their referring cardiac surgeon to ask about their postoperative course or their preoperative evaluation. The postoperative evaluation after rehabilitation or discharge should be avoided, unless certain critical issues exist. Cardiac surgeon could evaluate the most recent exams by mail, and reassure the patient, after a phone interview, that his postoperative course is uneventful. Furthermore, the surgeon should re-evaluate patients scheduled for surgery before the COVID-19 outbreak. Patients in need of urgent surgery should be referred to a cardiac hub hospital. Operations for patients with stable cardiac disease should be postponed and cardiac surgeon should reassure his patients that they are not taking any risk in delaying surgery. In this phase, it is important that only a minority of patients (and only those with severe issues) have an outpatient clinic evaluation inside the hospital, in order to avoid possible further infection or contamination.