Emergency Medicine Reports – August 17, 2008
August 17, 2008
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Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Adults
Many odors are noxious, but few are as repellent as the foul smell of massive hematochezia. Everybody in the emergency department knows something is wrong. Once you get past the smell, you realize you often have a very ill patient with a complex medical history and underlying comorbidities. Disposition decision is often easy ("ADMIT"), but to whom and where?