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cord-308730-mv3ttl1e	Bujanda, Luis	Surgery and emergency gastrointestinal endoscopy during the Covid-19 pandemic	2020-09-16		.txt	text/plain	912	58	58	Urgent gastrointestinal endoscopy (UGE) is a worldwide extended medical procedure, being the most frequent the upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding and impaction of a foreign body the most common emergencies that require this technique 1, 2 . Regarding to our protocol, we perform UGE within 12 hours since admission to patients with gastrointestinal bleeding and within 6 hours to those with impaction of foreign bodies. By the other hand, lower gastrointestinal bleeding was the main indication for urgent colonoscopy, performed in 11 (9%) cases, followed by 6 patients (5%) who needed stenting due to colonic obstruction in relation to colorectal cancer. The number of colonoscopies needed for colonic stents in obstructive colorectal cancer decreased by half in Covid period. Probably related to the former reasons the percentage decrease of UGE due to impaction of foreign bodies was higher than the observed for GI bleeding.	./cache/cord-308730-mv3ttl1e.txt	./txt/cord-308730-mv3ttl1e.txt