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Specialized gastrointestinal units for the management of upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage
J D Sanderson1, R F Taylor, S Pugh
1Department of Gastroenterology, Whittington Hospital, London, UK.
Postgraduate Medical Journal
|August 1, 1990
Abstract:
In 1986, 292 patients were admitted to a joint medical-surgical gastrointestinal unit with upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage. Fourteen patients died (4.8%) a mortality considerably lower than recorded in most series. The low mortality may result from the use of a specialized gastrointestinal unit to which all patients with upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage are admitted and managed with strict protocols for resuscitation, transfusion and surgery.