Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on endoscopic procedures: a single-center study in China

doi:10.5847/wjem.j.1920-8642.2022.065

World Journal of Emergency Medicine ›› 2022, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (4): 301-304.doi: 10.5847/wjem.j.1920-8642.2022.065

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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on endoscopic procedures: a single-center study in China

Lai-juan Chen¹, Xiu-jing Yu², Ting Chen², Mei-feng Wu², Yong-li Ye², Lun-po Wu³^,⁴()

¹Nursing Department, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310009, China
²Department of Endoscopy Center, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310009, China
³Department of Gastroenterology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310009, China
⁴Institution of Gastroenterology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310009, China

Received:2021-11-16 Accepted:2022-02-21 Online:2022-06-23 Published:2022-07-01
Contact: Lun-po Wu E-mail:drwlp@zju.edu.cn

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Lai-juan Chen, Xiu-jing Yu, Ting Chen, Mei-feng Wu, Yong-li Ye, Lun-po Wu. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on endoscopic procedures: a single-center study in China[J]. World Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2022, 13(4): 301-304.

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Location	Before disinfection (cfu)	After disinfection (cfu)
Room 1
Left	2	0
Middle	1	0
Right	0	0
Room 2
Left	2	0
Middle	2	0
Right	0	0
Room 3
Left	1	0
Middle	1	0
Right	2	0

Operations	January 1 2019-December 1 2019	January 1 2020-December 1 2020	Variation
Gastrointestinal endoscopy
Routine gastroscopy	17,715	12,719	-0.282
Routine colonoscopy	4,600	3,852	-0.163
Painless gastroscopy	34,832	35,838	0.029
Painless colonoscopy	28,962	29,047	0.003
Capsule gastroscopy	956	728	-0.238
Removal of foreign body in UGI tract	373	312	-0.164
Esophageal EMR/ESD	116	162	0.397
Gastric EMR/ESD	377	415	0.101
Colorectal EMR/ESD	2,943	4,429	0.505
EUS	1,022	1,119	0.095
ERCP	486	508	0.045
Other therapeutic endoscopy	7,916	11,085	0.400
Respiratory endoscopy
Bronchoscopy	2,971	2,767	-0.069

Periods	Rate of hand hygiene (%)	Rate of object cleaning (%)	Awareness rate of COVID-19 (%)
Before pandemic	92.1	92.5	0
During pandemic	100.0	100.0	100.0

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