GI emergencies: Rapid therapeutic responses for older patients

Geriatrics

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 20-34

  Swaim, Mark W ^a   Wilson, Joanne A P ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; LANSOPRAZOLE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OMEPRAZOLE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; STEROID; TICLOPIDINE; VITAMIN K GROUP; WARFARIN;

AGED; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIVERTICULOSIS; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH INTUBATION; STOMACH VARICES;

AGED; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS;

EID: 0033052162     PISSN: 0016867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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