How do you decide if a patient with clinically apparent acute GI bleed but with hemodynamic stability and no significant acute blood loss anemia requires inpatient endoscopy versus expedited outpatient endoscopy?
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Family Medicine · UAMS Medical Center
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If there is no apparent blood loss and vital signs are good, then, IMO, the patient could go home with an endoscopy soon. If symptoms suggest dark blood, then a PPI as well.
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