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Way Forward: Gastrointestinal Tract Endoscopy Work Flow Postlockdown Era
| العنوان: | Way Forward: Gastrointestinal Tract Endoscopy Work Flow Postlockdown Era |
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| المؤلفون: | Randhir Sud, Sukrit Sud |
| المصدر: | Journal of Digestive Endoscopy, Vol 11, Iss 01, Pp 89-91 (2020) |
| بيانات النشر: | Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, health care workers, endoscopy, colonoscopy, aerosol, Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology, RC799-869 |
| الوصف: | Gastrointestinal tract endoscopy being an aerosol generating procedure increases the risk to staff and uninfected patients from a coronavirus disease 2019 patient. Social and physical distancing through “lockdown” has suppressed the spread of disease but will not eradicate it. Various endoscopy societies formulated guidelines to triage the patients and limit the work to only emergency and urgent cases and postpone “routine” endoscopies. Postlockdown infected vector pool will persist till an effective vaccine is widely available. Nonurgent cases cannot be postponed indefinitely. We need to identify infected symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals and create a safe environment for uninfected patients. Endoscopy staff protection through education, optimized manpower flow, and personal protective equipment usage and hand hygiene needs urgent attention. Proper environment sanitization, endoscope, and device reprocessing will remain important. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 0976-5042 0976-5050 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/0976-5042; https://doaj.org/toc/0976-5050 |
| DOI: | 10.1055/s-0040-1712335 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/a2a66abe9e8f4e0698162ccb7669457f |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.2a66abe9e8f4e0698162ccb7669457f |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| تدمد: | 09765042 09765050 |
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| DOI: | 10.1055/s-0040-1712335 |