Year 2021 / Volume 113 / Number 2
Letter
Safety in digestive endoscopy during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2021.7748/2020

Jesús García-Cano, Francisco Pérez Roldán,

Abstract
We read with interest the study by Hernández-Camba et al. about the low value of 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 knew that infections in endoscopy staff were scarce if adequate protection was worn and non-urgent procedures were postponed in patients with an active infection. Therefore, the conclusions of the study currently appear to be self-evident. However, things were different at the time it was performed.
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1. Hernández-Camba A, Marcelino Reyes R, Hernández-Guerra M, et al. Pre-procedural antibody testing for SARS-CoV-2 in the routine endoscopic practice. Rev Esp Enferm Dig 2021;
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Received: 21/12/2020

Accepted: 28/12/2020

Online First: 07/01/2021

Published: 08/02/2021

Article Online First time: 17 days

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