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cord-294073-65h2mkdy	Ke, Jia	Strategies and recommendations for the management of gastrointestinal surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: experience shared by Chinese surgeons	2020-07-03		.txt	text/plain	4150	234	43	We also recommend that each hospital should establish a group of diagnostic experts with responsibilities for risk stratification, especially for patients under investigation who need urgent surgery. • It is known that fever is one of the most common symptoms of COVID-19 and that patients with certain GI diseases (e.g. acute appendicitis, gastric perforation, intestinal obstruction) who required urgent care with emergency GI surgery often present with high fever as well. COVID-19-positive patients with GI bleeding with hemodynamic stability should undergo conservative treatments first, including angioembolization, before endoscopic treatment due to the high risk of endoscopy being an aerosol-generating procedure. For confirmed/high-risk COVID-19 patients and PUIs, diagnostic and therapeutic GI endoscopies should be performed in a negative-pressure room with Level Three precautions. For all surgical personnel involved in GI surgery for confirmed/ high-risk COVID-19 patients or for PUIs for COVID-19, we recommend the following protective measures (Figure 1 ).	./cache/cord-294073-65h2mkdy.txt	./txt/cord-294073-65h2mkdy.txt