title: Acute gastrointestinal bleeding.
abstract: Acute gastrointestinal bleeding is responsible for 1% to 2% of all hospital admissions in the United States annually. An awareness of common and uncommon pathologies will allow the clinician to develop a plan for the diagnostic evaluation that will lead to a diagnosis and localization of the bleeding site. Successful diagnosis and subsequent treatment are dependent on selecting the diagnostic tests that pinpoint the bleeding source accurately and in the most cost-effective manner.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Hartford Hospital, Connecticut 06102, USA.
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Zimmerman
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Curfman
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000465:Algorithms; D003422:Critical Care; D003663:Decision Trees; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000451:nursing; D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment