Endoscopes used in positive and critically ill patients are SARS-CoV-2 negative at virological assessment
| Autor: | Guido Costamagna, Fabio Grilli, Paola Cattani, Ivo Boškoski, Maria Valeria Matteo, Anna Di Gemma |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0301 basic medicine 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak medicine.medical_specialty Endoscope Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Settore MED/12 - GASTROENTEROLOGIA Critical Illness viruses Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Pilot Projects 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Humans Medicine Peracetic Acid Prospective Studies skin and connective tissue diseases Intensive care medicine Aged diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy Aged 80 and over medicine.diagnostic_test SARS-CoV-2 business.industry Critically ill fungi Gastroenterology COVID-19 Endoscopy Middle Aged respiratory tract diseases Endoscopy News Disinfection Endoscopes Gastrointestinal body regions 030104 developmental biology Equipment Contamination Female 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology business Disinfectants |
| Zdroj: | Gut |
| ISSN: | 1468-3288 0017-5749 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/gutjnl-2020-323577 |
| Popis: | The risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in endoscopy is not only between patients and endoscopy staff but is also through inadequately reprocessed endoscopes. There are no studies that could confirm the efficacy of current ways of endoscope reprocessing on the elimination of SARS-CoV-2. The aim of this pilot study was to evaluate the efficacy of high disinfection of endoscopes with peracetic acid on eliminating SARS-CoV-2, but surprisingly we found that the virus cannot be detected on any part of endoscopes used in critically ill patients due to SARS-CoV-2 and this was the same for all types of endoscopies and procedures. If confirmed in larger studies, these findings will probably open a new scenario in the overall understanding of the real impact of the virus. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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