id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-270510-z6qg48nz Lauro, A. Emergency Endoscopy During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in the North of Italy: Experience from St. Orsola University Hospital—Bologna 2020-04-22 .txt text/plain 1669 87 42 We report our experience with emergency endoscopies in the COVID-19 era; the goal was to sustain a full emergency endoscopic capability despite the hospital overload due to SARS-CoV-2-infected patients. Instead, emergency endoscopies were performed on SARS-CoV-2-negative and positive patients; a negative-pressure room outside the endoscopy department was planned, but, at the beginning of the pandemic, the only practical possibility was to create a separate suite for SARS-CoV-2-positive patients needing Editor's Note: This report is one of a series documenting the impact of the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus with resultant morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19. In our hospital, trainees are essential to the management of the burden among patients infected by SARS-CoV-2, but, regarding endoscopy, our policy was to stop training in the urgent endoscopy suite in order to reduce the numbers of inside operators and their use of PPE. ./cache/cord-270510-z6qg48nz.txt ./txt/cord-270510-z6qg48nz.txt