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Upper GI Bleeding (Non-Variceal)

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The Importance of Vital Signs in Endoscopy and GI Bleed

The AIM 65 stands for all less than three, INR above 1.5 and Mumin or mercury below 90 millimeters of mercury. The BUN to creatiniratio is a likelihood ratio of 7.5 positive likelihood ratio for an upper GI bleed source. If the patient can't tell you their medications sometimes it takes that extra step of getting some collateral history to help clarify what they may have been taking. And I think again Navin we're sort of stressing here when the patient initially comes in how you think about risk stratification.

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