Author: GarcÃa-Cano, Jesús; Pérez Roldán, Francisco
Title: Safety in Digestive Endoscopy during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Cord-id: sme9maei Document date: 2021_1_7
ID: sme9maei
Snippet: We read with interest the study by Hernández-Camba et al. (1) about the little value found in antibody testing for Covid-19 before endoscopic procedures and we would like to make some comments Nine months after the first state of alarm was declared in Spain due to the SARS-COV-2 pandemic, we know that infections in endoscopy staff are scarce if adequate protection is worn and non-urgent procedures are postponed in patients with active infection. Therefore, the conclusions of the study appear to
Document: We read with interest the study by Hernández-Camba et al. (1) about the little value found in antibody testing for Covid-19 before endoscopic procedures and we would like to make some comments Nine months after the first state of alarm was declared in Spain due to the SARS-COV-2 pandemic, we know that infections in endoscopy staff are scarce if adequate protection is worn and non-urgent procedures are postponed in patients with active infection. Therefore, the conclusions of the study appear to be, currently, self-evident. However, things were different at the time it was done. The study was performed during endoscopic activity resumption, after almost a full stop of most non-urgent endoscopic procedures. Furthemore, at that time, PCR tests on nasopharyngeal exudate were not widely available.
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