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- Title
Emergency physicians accurately interpret video capsule endoscopy findings in suspected upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage: a video survey.
- Authors
Meltzer, Andrew C; Pinchbeck, Carrie; Burnett, Sarah; Buhumaid, Rasha; Shah, Payal; Ding, Ru; Fleischer, David E; Gralnek, Ian M
- Abstract
Acute upper gastrointestinal (GI) hemorrhage is a common emergency department (ED) presentation whose severity ranges from benign to life-threatening and the best tool to risk stratify the disease is an upper endoscopy, either by scope or by capsule, a procedure performed almost exclusively by gastroenterologists. Unfortunately, on-call gastroenterology specialists are often unavailable, and emergency physicians (EPs) currently lack an alternative method to endoscopically visualize a suspected acute upper GI hemorrhage. Recent reports have shown that video capsule endoscopy is well tolerated by ED patients and has similar sensitivity and specificity to endoscopy for upper GI hemorrhage.
- Publication
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2013, Vol 20, Issue 7, p711
- ISSN
1553-2712
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/acem.12165