Immediate unprepared hydroflush colonoscopy for severe lower GI bleeding: A feasibility study

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 367-373

  Repaka, Aparna ^a   Atkinson, Matthew R ^a   Faulx, Ashley L ^a   Isenberg, Gerard A ^a   Cooper, Gregory S ^a   Chak, Amitabh ^a   Wong, Richard C K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENEMA; TAP WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; ENEMA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS, ENDOSCOPIC; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ACUITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; WATER;

EID: 84864137131     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2012.03.1391     Document Type: Article

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