Clinical Aspects of Upper GI Bleeding

explain how ulcers, varices and other causes of upper GI bleeding arise
discuss how these pathologies can lead to the clinical presentation of upper GI bleeding
describe the important steps in managing a patient with acute gastrointestinal bleeding

Why is upper GI bleeding important, how does it present and why does it occur?
What is the mortality rate from upper GI bleed, and the incidence of rebleeding?
Outline the different causes of upper GI bleeding, by percentage…
How do peptic ulcers occur?
Let’s look at pictures of different ulcers in the GI tract…
Outline the principles of managing upper GI bleeding…
What does the early assessment and triage involve in a GI bleed?
How do we identify the high risk patients?
Outline the risk scores we have for upper GI bleeding, for all other patients…
Here’s the Rockall score for upper GI bleeding, predicting mortality…
Explain the Glasgow Blatchford Score…
Here was an international study comparing risk scores in patient with upper GI bleeding…
How does the timing of endoscopy vary for patients with upper GI bleeding?
A diagram showing us an endoscope…
Here’s a bar graph and pictures showing us different types of bleed, along with risk of rebleeding…