ESGE Guidelines
The ESGE Guidelines Committee is consistently involved in monitoring state-of-the-art procedures and techniques in various endoscopy related areas and, as a result, publishing relevant guidelines and recommendations. Guidelines approved by the committee are published in the journal Endoscopy and may be downloaded here.
ESGE-ESGENA guideline: Cleaning and disinfection in gastrointestinal endoscopy - Update 2008
Source: Endoscopy. 2008; 40: 939-957
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ESGE Guideline: flexible enteroscopy for diagnosis and treatment of small−bowel diseases
Source: Endoscopy. 2008; 40: 609-618
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ESGE Guideline: Ethical issues in endoscopy: patient satisfaction, safety in elderly patients, palliation, and relations with industry
Source: Endoscopy. 2007; 39: 556-565
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ESGE/ESGENA guideline for process validation and routine testing for reprocessing endoscopes in washer-disinfectors
Source: Endoscopy. 2007; 39: 85-94
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ESGE-ESGENA guideline for quality assurance in reprocessing: Microbiological surveillance testing in endoscopy
Source: Endoscopy. 2007; 39: 175-181
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Video capsule endoscopy: Update to guidelines (May 2006)
Source: Endoscopy. 2006; 38: 1047-1053
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ESGE Guideline on Video Capsule Endoscopy (2004)
Source: Endoscopy. 2004; 36: 656-658
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ESGE Recommendations for Quality Control in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy:
Guidelines for Image Documentation in Upper and Lower GI Endoscopy (2001)
Source: Endoscopy. 2001; 33: 901 - 903
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Antibiotic Prophylaxis For Gastroinenstinal Endoscopy
Source: Endoscopy. 1998 Mar;30(3):318-24
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