Emergency general surgery in Italy during the COVID-19 outbreak: first survey from the real life

Abstract Background COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly spread in Italy in late February 2020. Almost all surgical services have been reorganized, with the aim of maintaining an adequate therapeutic path, especially for surgical emergencies. The knowledge of how surgeons dealing with emergency surgery hav...

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Main Authors: Alberto Patriti, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Fausto Catena, Pierluigi Marini, Marco Catarci, FACS on behalf of the Associazione Chirurghi Ospedalieri Italiani (ACOI)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-05-01
Series:World Journal of Emergency Surgery
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13017-020-00314-3