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Pediatrics. G.examination

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Upper gastrointestinal bleeding - history

Author: Cecylia Ambroży



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- Is it blood? – contents: dyes, tea, juice, beetroot • Coffee grounds vomiting – peptic ulcer, • Fresh blood – esophageal varices • Blood clot – esophageal varices • Small pieces of blood • Stool – melena?, bloody stool – in massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding • Other sources of blood – swallowed blood in breast fed infants, upper respiratory tract bleeding, sinuses, tooth, bleeding gums • How plentiful bleeding


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