scholarly journals The Relationship between Pre-endoscopic Rockall Score and Clinical Course of Patients Presenting wit Non-Variceal Upper gastrointestinal Bleeding in the Emergency Department

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
İbrahim Özgür ŞAHİN ◽  
Selen ACEHAN ◽  
Akkan AVCİ ◽  
Müge GÜLEN ◽  
Salim SATAR
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Olita Shilpakar ◽  
Pratap Narayan Prasad ◽  
Ramesh Kumar Maharjan

Introduction: Upper gastrointestinal bleeding is a gastrointestinal emergency. It is characterized by hematemesis or melena or both. Rapid identification and stabilization of patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding presenting to the emergency department is essential for patient survival. This study was done to inspect the use of the Clinical Rockall score to predict the outcome in patients with Upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Methods: A cross sectional study of 272 patients who presented to the emergency department of Tribhuvan University Teaching hospital within a period of one year with hematemesis or melena or both was performed. The Clinical Rockall Score was calculated for each patient based on the points assigned for clinical variables. Results: The most common cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding was esophageal varices 86 (31.6%), followed by ulcers 53 (19.5%). Hematemesis was the most common mode of presentation in 133 (48.9%) followed by melaena in 95 (34.9%) and both in 44 (16.2%). High clinical Rockall score of >4 was associated with outcomes like transfusion in 81% patients, rebleeding in 61.9% and mortality in 69% of patients. The predictive accuracy of clinical Rockall score for transfusion, the AUROC was 0.737 (95% CI: 0.678-0.791, P=0.001); for rebleeding, the AUROC was 0.863 (95% CI: 0.8-0.927, P= 0.001) and for mortality, the AUROC was 0.877 (95% CI: 0.81-0.944, P= 0.001). Conclusions: Clinical Rockall Score is a simple and rapid non endoscopic risk score that can be applied at the time of presentation to the emergency department to predict mortality outcomes in patients with acute UGIB.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-111
Author(s):  
Sunil Adhikari ◽  
Suraj Rijal ◽  
Darlene Rose House

Introduction: Upper gastrointestinal bleeding is an acute emergency condition. It is an important cause for the hospital admission. This study descriptively analyses the clinical profile of upper gastrointestinal bleeding presenting to a tertiary hospital in Nepal. Method: This is a cross-sectional study of patients presenting with upper gastrointestinal bleeding from 01 Oct 2018 to 30 Sep 2019 at Patan Hospital Emergency Department, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Nepal. Patient’s demographics, clinical presentation, duration of illness before presenting to Emergency, vitals, and laboratory parameters were descriptively analyzed. Ethical approval was obtained. Result: There were 121 patients, male 82(67.8%) and female 38(31.4%) aging 14 to 90 years. Fifty-three patients (43.8 %) presented with hematemesis, 38(31.4%) with melena, and 27(22.3%) with both hematemesis and melena. Variceal bleeding was the main cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding found in 73(60.33%) followed by ulcer bleeding in 48(39.66%). Conclusion: Variceal bleeding was the main cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding and hematemesis was the most common clinical presentation in patients presenting to the Emergency Department.


PeerJ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. e11656
Author(s):  
Lan Chen ◽  
Han Zheng ◽  
Saibin Wang

Background Upper gastrointestinal bleeding is a common presentation in emergency departments and carries significant morbidity worldwide. It is paramount that treating physicians have access to tools that can effectively evaluate the patient risk, allowing quick and effective treatments to ultimately improve their prognosis. This study aims to establish a mortality risk assessment model for patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding at an emergency department. Methods A total of 991 patients presenting with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding between July 2016 and June 2019 were enrolled in this retrospective single-center cohort study. Patient demographics, parameters assessed at admission, laboratory test, and clinical interventions were extracted. We used the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression to identify predictors for establishing a nomogram for death in the emergency department or within 24 h after leaving the emergency department and a corresponding nomogram. The area under the curve of the model was calculated. A bootstrap resampling method was used to internal validation, and decision curve analysis was applied for evaluate the clinical utility of the model. We also compared our predictive model with other prognostic models, such as AIMS65, Glasgow-Blatchford bleeding score, modified Glasgow-Blatchford bleeding score, and Pre-Endoscopic Rockall Score. Results Among 991 patients, 41 (4.14%) died in the emergency department or within 24 h after leaving the emergency department. Five non-zero coefficient variables (transfusion of plasma, D-dimer, albumin, potassium, age) were filtered by the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression analysis and used to establish a predictive model. The area under the curve for the model was 0.847 (95% confidence interval [0.794–0.900]), which is higher than that of previous models for mortality of patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The decision curve analysis indicated the clinical usefulness of the model. Conclusions The nomogram based on transfusion of plasma, D-dimer, albumin, potassium, and age effectively assessed the prognosis of patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding presenting at the emergency department.


2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-38
Author(s):  
Zeynep Konyar ◽  
Ozlem Guneysel ◽  
Fatma Sari Dogan ◽  
Eren Gokdag

Background: Gastrointestinal bleeding is a commonly seen multidisciplinary clinical condition in emergency departments which has high treatment cost and mortality in company with hospital admission. Risk evaluation before endoscopy is based on clinical and laboratory findings at patient’s emergency visit. Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of “Glasgow-Blatchford scale + lactate levels” to predict the mortality of patients detected with gastrointestinal bleeding in the emergency department. Methods: A total of 107 patients with preliminary diagnosis of upper gastrointestinal bleeding included in the study after approval of the ethics committee were prospectively evaluated. Glasgow-Blatchford scale scores were calculated and venous blood lactate levels were assessed. Need for blood transfusion in the follow-up, the amount of transfusion, and mortality in the next 6 months were evaluated. Results: A statistically significant difference was found in mortality rates between the lactate and Glasgow-Blatchford scale cohorts in our study (p = 0.001 and p < 0.01, respectively). The mortality rate was significantly higher in the lactate(+) GBS(+) cases compared to the lactate(–) GBS(+), lactate(+) GBS(–), and lactate(–) GBS(–) cases compared to the bilateral comparisons (p = 0.004, p = 0.001, p = 0.001, and p < 0.01, respectively). There was a statistically significant relationship between the rate of erythrocyte suspension replacement in the cases according to Glasgow-Blatchford scale levels (p = 0.001 and p < 0.01, respectively). The incidence of erythrocyte suspension replacement was 7.393 times greater in patients with Glasgow-Blatchford scale score of 12 and above. Conclusion: Glasgow-Blatchford scale is highly sensitive to the determination of mortality risk and the need for blood transfusion in upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Glasgow-Blatchford scale with lactate evaluation is more sensitive and more significant than Glasgow-Blatchford scale alone. This significance provides us to establish “modified Glasgow-Blatchford scale.” In the future, studies which will use Glasgow-Blatchford scale supported by lactate could be increased and the results should be supported more.


2016 ◽  
Vol 150 (4) ◽  
pp. S886
Author(s):  
Jung Wan Choe ◽  
Dongwon Lee ◽  
Seung Young Kim ◽  
Jong Jin Hyun ◽  
Sung Woo Jung ◽  
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2005 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. AB166
Author(s):  
Martin Hunstiger ◽  
Werner Schmidbaur ◽  
Juergen Barnert ◽  
Thomas Eberl ◽  
Reinhard Fleischmann ◽  
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