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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Endosc Int Open 2021; 09(11): E1702-E1703
DOI: 10.1055/a-1546-8665
Letter to the editor

COVID-19 and gastrointestinal endoscopy in France: from the first to the second wave

Maximilien Barret
 1   Gastroenterology and Digestive Oncology, Cochin Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris
 2   University of Paris, France
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Arthur Belle
 1   Gastroenterology and Digestive Oncology, Cochin Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris
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David Bernardini
 3   Gastroenterology Department, La Casamance Private Hospital, Aubagne, France
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Anne-Laure Tarrerias
 4   Gastroenterology Department, Hôpital Foch, Suresnes, Île-de-France, France
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Erwan Bories
 5   Gastroenterology Department, Hôpital Privé de Provence, Aix En Provence, France
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Vianna Costil
 6   Gastroenterology Department, Pôle Santé des 4 Temps, Puteaux, France
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Bernard Denis
 7   Médecine A, Hôpital Pasteur, Colmar, France
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Rodica Gincul
 8   Service de Gastroentérologie, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France
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David Karsenti
 9   Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Clinique de Paris-Bercy, Charenton-le-Pont, France
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Stephane Koch
10   Gastroenterology Department, CHU Besançon, Besançon, France
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Arthur Laquiere
11   Gastroenterology Department, Hôpital St Joseph, Marseille, France
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Thierry Lecomte
12   Department of Hepatogastroenterology and Digestive Oncology, Trousseau University Hospital, Tours, France
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Vincent Quentin
13   Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Hôpital St Brieuc, St Brieuc, France
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Gabriel Rahmi
14   Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Paris, France
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Michel Robaszkiewicz
15   Department of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, CHRU de Brest, Brest, France
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Eric Vaillant
16   Department of Gastroenterology, Centre médical du Nord, Lille, France
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Geoffroy Vanbiervliet
17   Digestive Endoscopy, Hôpital de L'Archet 2, Nice, France
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Arianne Vienne
18   Department of Gastroenterology, Hôpital privé d'Anthony, Anthony, France
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Franck Dumeiran
19   Gastroenterology Department, Société française d'endoscopie digestive, Limoges, France
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Olivier Gronier
20   Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Clinique Sainte Barbe, Strasbourg, France
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Stanislas Chaussade
 1   Gastroenterology and Digestive Oncology, Cochin Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris
 2   University of Paris, France
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In March 2020, a week after the first lockdown in France, during the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the French Society of Digestive Endoscopy (Société Française d’Endoscopie Digestive, SFED) sent gastroenterologists practicing endoscopy a web-based survey that included 35 questions about their endoscopic activity during 1 week [1]. The survey concluded that 91 % of the endoscopies were cancelled, and underscored the poor level of personal protective equipment (PPE) available, with difficulties obtaining masks reported by 14 % of respondents and 57 % of endoscopies eventually performed without a mask. In addition, 13 % of the respondents reported symptoms compatible with COVID-19 and 2 % had a positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test for it.



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12 November 2021

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