Endoscopy during the Covid-19 outbreak: experience and recommendations from a single center in a high-incidence scenario.

ABSTRACT: A dramatic SARS-Cov-2 outbreak is hitting Italy hard. To face the new scenario all the hospitals have been re-organised in order to reduce all the outpatient services and to devote almost all their personnel and resources to the management of Covid-19 patients. As a matter of fact, all the services have undergone a deep re-organization guided by: the necessity to reduce exams, to create an environment that helps reduce the virus spread, and to preserve the medical personnel from infection. In these days a re-organization of the endoscopic unit, sited in a high-incidence area, has been adopted, with changes to logistics, work organization and patients selection. With the present manuscript, we want to support gastroenterologists and endoscopists in the organization of a "new" endoscopy unit

SUBMITTER: Elli L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7183950 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature