Bedside colonoscopy for critically ill patients with acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 743-746

  Lin, Chun Che ^a   Lee, Yi Chia ^b   Lee, Huei ^a   Lin, Jaw Town ^b   Ho, Wei Chi ^a   Chen, Tan Hsia ^a   Wang, Hsiu Po ^b  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Gastrointestinal hemorrhage; Intensive care unit

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CENTER; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM ULCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE; TAIWAN;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 18844383475     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-005-2604-6     Document Type: Article

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