ACG clinical guideline: Management of patients with acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 459-474

  Strate, Lisa L ^a   Gralnek, Ian M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENALIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; DIVERTICULOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTESTINE PREPARATION; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTPOLYPECTOMY BLEEDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCINTIGRAPHY; ACUTE DISEASE; CONTRAINDICATIONS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; RECURRENT DISEASE; SECONDARY PREVENTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOSTASIS, ENDOSCOPIC; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; RECURRENCE; RESUSCITATION; SECONDARY PREVENTION;

EID: 84959518337     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2016.41     Document Type: Review

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