Endoscopy during the Covid-19 outbreak: experience and recommendations from a single center in a high-incidence scenario.
Dig Liver Dis
; 52(6): 606-612, 2020 06.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-125330
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 that responds to the "new" scenario, while remaining fully aware that resources, availability and local circumstances may extremely vary from unit to unit.
Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Patient Care Management
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Infection Control
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Coronavirus Infections
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Disease Transmission, Infectious
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Endoscopy
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Pandemics
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Gastrointestinal Diseases
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
English
Journal:
Dig Liver Dis
Journal subject:
Gastroenterology
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
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