Acute non – variceal upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage

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Author(s): P Bhandari & P Patel

Description

 

Upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage remains a common medical emergency with significant mortality. Management depends on appropriate and timely resuscitation, therapeutic endoscopy and surgery. This is made possible by a multidisciplinary approach incorporating protocols and scoring systems to aid risk stratification. Communication between members of the multidisciplinary team is important in determining the outcome for patients with high predicted mortality.