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Endoscopy 2022; 54(08): 797-826
DOI: 10.1055/a-1859-3726
Position Statement

Reducing the environmental footprint of gastrointestinal endoscopy: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) and European Society of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Nurses and Associates (ESGENA) Position Statement

 1   Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Universidad de Alcalá, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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Mario Dinis-Ribeiro*
 2   Porto Comprehensive Cancer Center (Porto.CCC), and RISE@CI-IPOP (Health Research Network), Porto, Portugal
,
Heiko Pohl
 3   Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, New Hampshire, and Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, VA White River Junction, Vermont, USA
,
Deepak Agrawal
 4   Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Dell Medical School, University of Texas Austin, Texas, USA
,
Marianna Arvanitakis
 5   Department of Gastroenterology, Erasme University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
,
Robin Baddeley
 6   King’s Health Partners Institute for Therapeutic Endoscopy, King’s College Hospital, and Wolfson Unit for Endoscopy, St Mark’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom
,
Elzbieta Bak
 7   Department of Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine, Clinical Hospital of Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
,
Pradeep Bhandari
 8   Gastroenterology, Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust, Portsmouth, UK
,
Michael Bretthauer
 9   Clinical Effectiveness Research Group, University of Oslo, and Department of Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
,
Patricia Burga
10   Endoscopy Department, University Hospital of Padua, Italy
,
Leigh Donnelly
11   Endoscopy Department, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, Northumberland, United Kingdom
,
Axel Eickhoff
12   Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Diabetologie, Infektiologie, Klinikum Hanau, Hanau, Germany
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13   Department of Gastroenterology, University College London Hospitals, London, United Kingdom
,
Michal F. Kaminski
14   Department of Cancer Prevention and Department of Oncological Gastroenterology, The Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
,
Katarina Karlović
15   Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka , Department of Gastroenterology, Endoscopy Unit, Rijeka, Croatia
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16   Department of Gastroenterology, University and Polytechnic La Fe Hospital/IIS La Fe, Valencia, Spain
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17   Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), and Institut d’Investigacions Biomediques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
,
Mathieu Pioche
18   Endoscopy Unit, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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19   Department of Gastroenterology, Dudley Group Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley, United Kingdom
,
Peter D. Siersema
20   Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
,
William Stableforth
19   Department of Gastroenterology, Dudley Group Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley, United Kingdom
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21   Division of Gastroenterology, Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, Belfast, Northern Ireland
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22   Hepatogastroenterology Unit, Second Department of Internal Medicine - Propaedeutic, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon University General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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23   Digestive Endoscopy Unit, ULSS 2 Marca Trevigiana, Conegliano Hospital, Conegliano, Italy
,
Andrew Veitch
24   Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
,
25   Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Colentina Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
,
George J. Webster
13   Department of Gastroenterology, University College London Hospitals, London, United Kingdom
,
Ariane Vienne
26   Hôpital Privé d’Antony, Antony, France
,
Ulrike Beilenhoff
27   Ulm, Germany
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28   Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), TARGID, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
,
Cesare Hassan
29   Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, and Endoscopy Unit, IRCCS Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano, Milan, Italy
,
Ian M. Gralnek
30   Ellen and Pinchas Mamber Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Emek Medical Center, Afula, and Rappaport Faculty of Medicine Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
,
Helmut Messmann
31   III Medizinische Klinik Universitätsklinikum Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
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