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Practice of endoscopy during COVID-19 pandemic: position statements of the Asian Pacific Society for Digestive Endoscopy (APSDE-COVID statements)

Chiu PWY 1 , Ng SC 2 , Inoue H 3 , Reddy DN 4 , Ling Hu E 5 , Cho JY 6 Show all authors , Ho LK 7 , Hewett DG 8 , Chiu HM 9 , Rerknimitr R 10 , Wang HP 11 , Ho SH 12 , Seo DW 13 , Goh KL 14 , Tajiri H 15 , Kitano S 16 , Chan FKL 17

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • 2 Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Institute of Digestive Disease, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, LKS Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong [email protected]
  • 3 Digestive Disease Center, Showa University, Northern Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama, Japan
  • 4 Asian Healthcare Foundation, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
  • 5 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, General Hospital of Chinese PLA, Beijing, China
  • 6 Digestive Endoscopy Center, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • 7 Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • 8 School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
  • 9 Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 10 Department of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 11 Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 12 Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 13 Asan Medical Center, Songpa-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • 14 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 15 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
  • 16 Oita University, Oita, Japan
  • 17 Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Institute of Digestive Disease, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, LKS Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Gut, 2020 Jun;69(6):991-996.
PMID: 32241897 DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2020-321185

Abstract

Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 has become a global pandemic. Risk of transmission may occur during endoscopy and the goal is to prevent infection among healthcare professionals while providing essential services to patients. Asia was the first continent to have a COVID-19 outbreak, and this position statement of the Asian Pacific Society for Digestive Endoscopy shares our successful experience in maintaining safe and high-quality endoscopy practice at a time when resources are limited. Sixteen experts from key societies of digestive endoscopy in Asia were invited to develop position statements, including patient triage and risk assessment before endoscopy, resource prioritisation and allocation, regular monitoring of personal protective equipment, infection control measures, protective device training and implementation of a strategy for stepwise resumption of endoscopy services after control of the COVID-19 outbreak.

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