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1
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What signs should be recognised as potential upper GI bleed

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Haematemesis
Coffee ground vomit
Melana

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Resus for upper GI bleed management. When transfuse?

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NEWS
IV crystalloid
Transfuse if Hb below 70g/L. (aim for 70-100)

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What do you use to risk assess an upper GI bleed?

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Glasgow Blatchford Score

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What should you give if sus varices

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Terlipressin 2mg IV
Antibiotics as trust protocol
Continue aspirin
Suspend other antithrombotics

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What investgiation should refer to and when with upper GI bleed?

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Endoscopy in 24 hours of presentation
GI specialist if require therapeutic endoscopy

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When should you activate major haemorrhage protocol and critical care review?

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Haemodynamic instability

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What landmark sperates upper and lower sources of GI bleeding?

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Ligament of Treitz (suspensory ligament of the duodenum, suspends the duodejejunal flexure form the retroperitoneum)

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How does bleeding above vs below the ligament of Treitz present?

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Above -> haematemesis or melana
Below -> haematachazia (passing blood)

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What is melaena?

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Dark, black and tarry stool
Strong odour - digestion of haemoglobin

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How to differentiate between iron induced black stool and melaena?

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Iron will have a green tinge when spread thinner, melaena wont

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Common causes of upper GI bleed list

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Gastric and/or duodenal ulcers
Severe or erosive gastritis/duodenitis
Severe or erosive esophagitis
Esophagogastric varices
Portal hypertensive gastropathy
Angiodysplasia (also known as vascular ectasia)
Mallory-Weiss syndrome
Mass lesions (polyps/cancers)
No lesion identified (10 to 15 percent of patients)

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Symptoms of Mallory Weiss syndrome

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  • Emesis
  • Retching
  • Coughing prior to haematemesis
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Signs that indicate variceal bleed

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jaundice
Ascites

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14
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Which peptic ulcer pain is relieved by eating?

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Duodenal

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Why is duodenal ulcer pain relieved by food?

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Presence of food in the stomach triggers release of digestive juices which are alkaline and relieve the acidic pH

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If the patient complains of pain when they eat which ulcer is it more likely t be?

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Gastric

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Symptoms peptic ulcer

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Dyspepsia
Central burning chest pain

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Signs of malignancy causing upper GI bleed

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  • Dysphagia
  • early satiety
  • Cachexia
  • Involuntary weight loss
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19
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When is haematachezia seen with an upper GI bleed

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When the bleed is massive

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Why can upper GI bleeds be associated with orthostatic hypotension

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When they are big enough to cause haemodynamic instability

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History questions ass symptoms with upper GI bleed

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painless vs. painful
trouble swallowing
unintentional weight loss
preceding emesis or retching
change in bowel habits

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Symptoms of an oesophageal ulcer

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Odynophagia, GORD, dysphagia

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23
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What is important to consider in a patient with a history of AAA or aortic graft with an upper GI bleed?

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Aorto-eneteric fistula - abnormal connection between the aorta and the blood supply to the GI tract

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What is angiodysplasia and how diagnosed

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an abnormal, tortuous, dilated small blood vessel in the mucosal and submucosal layers of the GI tract.
Diagnosed with colonoscopy or angiography

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What PMH is important when considering an angiodysplasia?

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Renal disease
Aortic stenosis
Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia

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26
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What are risk factors for peptic ulcer diseas?

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H.pylori infection
Smoking
NSAID use
Antithrombotic use

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What should you especially consider if H.pylori infection, exccess alcohol and smoking are in the history?

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Malignancy
Peptic ulcer disease

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What could cause upper GI bleed in a patient with gastroenteric anastomosis

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Marginal ulcers - ulcers at an anastomic site

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29
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What conditions can cause overload in rigorous fluid resus?

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CKD, HF

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30
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What patients is anaemia especially dangerous in?

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IHD

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31
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What to assess for in exam for upper GI bleed

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Full A to E if acute
Hypovolaemia
Resting tachycardia
Orthostatic hypotnesion
Supine hypotnesion
Signs of liver disease

PR exam
-anal fissures
Haemorrhoids
Anorectal mass
Stool exam

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32
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Which bloods ask for in upper GI bleed?

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FBC
G+S
INR, PT, APTT
Lactate
LFTs
Renal function - U+Es
Urea may be elevated
CRP
B12/folate/ferritin

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33
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Why is urea sometimes eleated in upper GI bleed?

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Proteins in blood absorbed in GI tract and transported to kidney - increased waste product

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34
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What does a low MCV suggest about the casue of a bleed?

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Iron deficiency anaemia, chronic bleeding

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35
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Differentials for an upper GI bleed

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Peptic ulcer disease
GE varices
Upper GI cancers - oesophageal, gastric
Erosive oesophagitis/gastritis/duodenitis
Mallory Weiss tear

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36
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Causes of haemotachezia

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Diverticulitis
Colitis: -IBD - Crohns, UC. -Ishcaemic -Infective, C.difficile
Colorectal cancers
Haemorrhoids
Anal fissure

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37
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What ass symptoms should you ask about with a GI bleed?

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Pain
GI Upset
Nausea/vomiting
Diarrhoea
Constipation
Mucus in stool
Pale stool
Malaena (indicating UGI bleed, which has been digested and excreted, of sufficient volume to alter stool composition)
Dark urine - indicating possible obstructive jaundice
Water brash
Dysphagia
Dyspepsia (ALARMS symptoms)
Reduced appetite
Weight loss
Flatus
Bloating
Tenesmus
Early satiety
Perianal itch.

38
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What diagnosis would be most likely in a young patient with diarrhoea, mucus in stool ad haematochezia?

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IBD
Get travel history

39
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What diagnosis would be most likely in a older patient with L iliac fossa pain and haemotachezia?

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Diverticulitis

40
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What sort of vimtting is seen in a Mallory-Weiss tear?

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Profuse with no blood initially then streaks of fresh blood

41
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What does jaundice and haematemesis signal?

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Oesophageal varices rupotured

42
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What diagnosis does dyspepsia nad coffee ground vomit suggest?

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Peptic ulcer disease

43
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What symptoms make infective colitis/dysentry like;ly?

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Fevers, bloating, acute D/V, unusualy food and heamatochezia, recent travel

44
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Main symptoms of haemorrhoids

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Tenesmus, perianal itch and constipation with heamatochezia

45
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What is proctalgia?

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Pain around anus/rectum

46
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What symptoms make an anal fissure more likely?

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Constipation
Blood on wiping after passing stoll
Proctalgia

47
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What bacteria may be implicated in haemolytic uraemic syndrome?

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E.Coli O157

48
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What orgnaism is teh most common cause of bloody diarrhorea?

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Shigella dysentriae

49
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What is the most common cause of gastroenteritis?

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Norovirus. Blood noy normally present

50
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What does Shigella dysentriae cause?

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Severe inflammation and necrosis in colon epithelium

51
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What is Giardia Lamblia?

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Parasitic infection causing malabsorption, abdominal pain, bloating and diarrhoea with steatorrhea

52
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What are large volume GI bleeds more likely to be?

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varices, peptic ulcer disease, diverticulitis, colitis.

53
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What does H.pylori increase your risk of?

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Peptic ulcer disease
Gastic cnacer

54
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Why are IBD patients at a higher risk of cancer

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Chronic intestinal inflammation
Immunosupression

55
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Why is pain worse at night and can wake patients with a duodenal ulcer up?

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When the stomach is empty there are continour secretions moving through to the duodenum -> irritate ulcered area

56
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What is alendronate

A

A Bisphosphonate

57
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Which inherited condition increases the risk of a variety of cnacers?

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HNPCC hereditary non polyposis colorectal cancer

58
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Why do polyunsaturated fats increase you risk of cancer?

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Increased cholesterol secretions which are broken down into potential carcinogens in GI tract

59
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WHich GI conditions does smoking increase the risk of?

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PUD
GI cancer
Flares of Crohns

60
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Steps to manage an acute upper GI bleed

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1) Stabilise the patient (fluid resusitation, transfusions, reversal of anticoagulation, Terlipressin)

2) Risk stratification based on Rockall and Blatchford Scoring systems

3) Endoscopic management in due course

61
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What score is used to assess upper GI bleeding?

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Rockall score

62
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Features of the rockall socre

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Age, shock, comorbidity, diagnosis (eg MW tear = o, GI malignancy - 2)
Evidence of bleeding

63
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What score strratifies high and low risk upper GI bleeds?

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Glasgow-Blatchford bleeding score. Any risk higher than 0 needs intervention

64
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Management of acute upper GI bleed

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https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg141/resources/acute-upper-gastrointestinal-bleeding-in-over-16s-management-pdf-35109565796293
Make more flash cards off NICE guidance

65
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What GI condition can CVS issues predispose to?

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Ischaemic colitis

66
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How does ischaemic colitis cause metabolic acidosis?

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Raises lactate levels

67
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Evidence of diverticulits on CT

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Thickening of bowel wall
Enhancement of colonic wall
Dark spot at centre=diverticula

68
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GI bleed symptoms to ask

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  • Pain
  • GI Upset
    • Nausea/vomiting
    • Diarrhoea
    • Constipation
    • Mucus in stool
    • Pale stool
    • Malaena
  • Dark urine - indicating possible obstructive jaundice
  • Water brash
  • Dysphagia
  • Dyspepsia (ALARMS symptoms)
  • Reduced appetite
  • Weight loss
  • Flatus
  • Bloating
  • Tenesmus
  • Early satiety
  • Perianal itch.
69
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Most common cause of bloody diarrhoea?

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Shigella dysentriae

70
Q

Initial management GI bleed

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Ensure good IV access - 2 green venflows minimum

71
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Criteria for central line insertion

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Severe shock
Rebleeding
Severe comorbidity ehere CVP monitoring adventageous eg cardiac or renal failure
Difficult/poor peripheral access

72
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What Rockall score is mod to severe risk?

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3-7

73
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What rockall score is mild to mod risk?

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0 -2

74
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Factors Rockall score

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Age - <60, 60-79, >79
Stigmata of shock - tachy, hypotension <100
Co-morbidity - IHD/CVA/COPD, renal/liver failure, disseminated mailgnancy

75
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What is the Glasgow blathcford score?

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For bleeding
Blood urea
Haemoglobin for men or women
other markers =
pulse, melaena, syncope, hepatic disease, cardiac failure

76
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Initial management diarrhoea, tachycardic, bleeding, on warfarin

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IV fluid bolus then maintenance
Reveres patients wararin with vit K
Start on broad specturm antibioitcs
Adequate analgesia - NOT NSAIDs
Disscuss with surgical registrat on call

77
Q

Bleeding disorders family history

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Von Willebrands disease
Haemophilia A
Factor V leiden
Antiphospholipid syndrome

78
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Hereditary family bowel conditions

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Herediatry non-polyposis colorectal cancer
Familial adenomatous polyposis

79
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What drugs can cause GI bleed?

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Bisphosphonates - inflammation, ulcers, strictures, gastritis, upper GI blees
Anticoagulation - reverse
NSAIDs
Sreroids - risk of ulcers
PPIs/H2 receptor anatagonists - protective, suggests prev problme

80
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Important PMH for bleeding CUSHINGPID

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C – Cataracts
U – Ulcers
S – Striae, Skin thinning
H – Hypertension, Hirsutism
I – Immunosuppression, Infections
N – Necrosis of femoral heads
G – Glucose elevation
O – Osteoporosis, Obesity
I – Impaired wound healing
D – Depression/mood changes

81
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What does melaena indicate

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(indicatingUGI bleed, which has been digested and excreted,of sufficient volume to alter stool composition)

82
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When are red cells considered in a resus situation?

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When 30% of circulating volume lost

83
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When do yuo give fresh frozen plasma in a bleed?

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Fibrinogen <1g/L
or
PT/INR ir APTT >1.5 x normal

84
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When give platelets in resus

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If actively bleeding and platelets under 50 x109/L

85
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What do you give to ppl on warfarin who are actively bleeding?

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Prothrombin complex concentrate

86
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Variceal bleed treatements

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oesophageal = band ligation
Gastric - N-butyl-2-cryanoacrylate for gastric varices
Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shints - TIPS offered if bleeding uncontrolled from above

87
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Causes of upper GI bleed

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Peptic ulcer
Mucosal inflammation - oeoph, gast, duodenitis
Oesophageal varices
Mallory weiss tear
Gastric carcinoma
Coagulation disorders eg thrombocytopenia, warfarin

88
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What do subcutaneous emphysema and vomitting suggest?

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Oesophageal perfoartion - Boerhaave syndrome

89
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What score do you use at first assessment vs endoscopy for upper GI bleed?

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Blatchford - 1st assess
Rockall score - endoscipy after

90
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What tdoes the Blatchford score calculate?

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Higher scores (0-23) correspond with increased acuity and mortality

91
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Admission risk markers counted in Baltchford score

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Blood urea
Hb men or women
Systolic BP
Other markers - pulse, melaena, syncope, hepatic disease, HF

GI, liver, kidney (50 decks)

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