Surgical Club of South West England
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It has been established that 85-90% of upper G.I. bleeds stop spontaneously, either before or soon after hospital admission, and the value of routine endoscopy in all patients has been questioned. We admitted 94 patients with well documented bleeding in an eighteen month period, 75% of whom underwent endoscopy within 24 hours. The remaining 25% were not endoscoped either because they required immediate surgery or because they were considered too ill from other medical conditions. Ten patients had operations, 4 of whom died, 2 in the group who had been endoscoped, from associated medical problems, and 2 in the non-endoscopy group, both from bleeding following surgery. The remaining patients were either well at follow-up or had returned to their homes elsewhere in the
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The Surgical Club of South West England
s of Papers given at the Autumn Meeting 1982 at Bath, October 22-23 INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY IN A DISTRICT
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