Results of emergency gastroscopy for acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding outside official hours at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

Volumn 86, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages

  Tangmankongworakoon, Nathaya ^a   Aekpongpaisit, Surasak ^a   Veskitkul, Padet ^a   Rerknimitr, Rungsun ^a   Kongkam, Pradermchai ^a   Kullavanijaya, Pinit ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Emergency Gastroscopy; Endoscopic Therapy; Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; GLUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLIP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DUODENUM ULCER; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; GASTRIC BANDING; GASTROSCOPY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCLEROTHERAPY; STOMACH ULCER; STOMACH VARICES; THAILAND; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

ADULT; AFTER-HOURS CARE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROSCOPY; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THAILAND;

EID: 0041429546     PISSN: 01252208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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