Endoscopy works during the pandemic of coronavirus COVID-19: recommendations by the Chinese Society of Digestive Endoscopy.
United European Gastroenterol J
; 8(7): 798-803, 2020 08.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-630426
ABSTRACT
Since December 2019, a novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, has occurred in China and has spread around the world rapidly. As an acute respiratory infectious disease, COVID-19 has been included in type B infectious diseases and managed according to the standard of type A infectious disease in China. Given the high risk of COVID-19 infection during endoscopic procedures via an airborne route, the Chinese Society of Digestive Endoscopy issued a series of recommendations to guide the endoscopy works in China during the pandemic. To the best of our knowledge, no new infectious case of COVID-19 resulting from endoscopic procedures has been reported in China to date. Here, these recommendations are integrated to provide guidance about the prevention of COVID-19 for endoscopists. The recommendations include advice about postponing non-urgent endoscopies, excluding the possibility of COVID-19 in patients undergoing endoscopy, protection of medical staff from coronavirus infection, and cleaning of endoscopy centres.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal
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Infection Control
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Practice Guidelines as Topic
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Coronavirus Infections
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Pandemics
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Personal Protective Equipment
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
United European Gastroenterol J
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
2050640620930632
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