Surgical activity management during COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

the worldwide spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SarS-cov-19) has profoundly affected the way daily healthcare procedures are performed Italy had a large number of confirmed cases of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and related fatalities Since the beginning of this pandemic, many changes in routine clinical and surgical activity have been made and are described in this short manuscript © 2020 Edizioni Minerva Medica