Digestive Tract Bleeding Care
Emergency Evaluation of Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Bleeding can occur anywhere in the digestive tract.
- Vomiting blood
- Black stools
- Fresh rectal bleeding
- Weakness- Fatigue
- Low hemoglobin
- Ulcers
- Varices
- Polyps
- Cancers
- Hemorrhoids
- Endoscopy
- Colonoscopy
- CT scan
- Blood test
- Stopping bleeding via endoscopy
- Blood transfusion (if needed)
- Treating underlying cause