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Open Access 01-12-2012 | Review

Management by the intensivist of gastrointestinal bleeding in adults and children

Authors: David Osman, Michel Djibré, Daniel Da Silva, Cyril Goulenok, group of experts

Published in: Annals of Intensive Care | Issue 1/2012

Abstract

Intensivists are regularly confronted with the question of gastrointestinal bleeding. To date, the latest international recommendations regarding prevention and treatment for gastrointestinal bleeding lack a specific approach to the critically ill patients. We present recommendations for management by the intensivist of gastrointestinal bleeding in adults and children, developed with the GRADE system by an experts group of the French-Language Society of Intensive Care (Société de Réanimation de Langue Française (SRLF), with the participation of the French Language Group of Paediatric Intensive Care and Emergencies (GFRUP), the French Society of Emergency Medicine (SFMU), the French Society of Gastroenterology (SNFGE), and the French Society of Digestive Endoscopy (SFED). The recommendations cover five fields of application: management of gastrointestinal bleeding before endoscopic diagnosis, treatment of upper gastrointestinal bleeding unrelated to portal hypertension, treatment of upper gastrointestinal bleeding related to portal hypertension, management of presumed lower gastrointestinal bleeding, and prevention of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in intensive care.

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Title: Management by the intensivist of gastrointestinal bleeding in adults and children
Authors: David Osman
Michel Djibré
Daniel Da Silva
Cyril Goulenok
group of experts
Publication date: 01-12-2012
Publisher: Springer Paris
Published in: Annals of Intensive Care / Issue 1/2012
Electronic ISSN: 2110-5820
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/2110-5820-2-46

At a glance: The STEP trials

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Management by the intensivist of gastrointestinal bleeding in adults and children

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At a glance: The STEP trials

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