• Luca Elli, Alessandro Rimondi, Lucia Scaramella, Matilde Topa, Maurizio Vecchi, Davide Mangioni, Andrea Gori, Roberto Penagini, and Digestive Endoscopy team of the Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico-Milano.
• Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via F. Sforza 35, 20122 Milano, Italy; Department of Pathophisiology and Transplantation, University of Milano, Via F. Sforza 35, 20122 Milano, Italy. Electronic address: luca.elli@policlinico.mi.it.
• Dig Liver Dis. 2020 Jun 1; 52 (6): 606-612.

AbstractA 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.Copyright © 2020 Editrice Gastroenterologica Italiana S.r.l. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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