Endoscopy for Bleeding Situations in Surgical Patients

University Hospital Tuebingen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hemorrhage

Treatments: Procedure: emergency endoscopy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04523753

Olena

Details and patient eligibility

About

Retrospective analysis of surgical patients with relevant gastrointestinal bleeding situations and indication for endoscopy for bleeding

Full description

We performed an analysis of all adult, surgial patients with indication for emergency endoscopy because of relevant gastrointestinal bleeding situations. A retrospective analysisof the incidence, causes, endoscopic findings and therapy and the outcome of bleeding situations during a 24-mounths interval in the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 was performed at our tertiary centre. Informed consent was obtained from all participants. Patient records as well as database were analyzed for therapy-specific items.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients of the University Hospital of Tübingen Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery with gastrointestinal bleeding situations

Exclusion criteria

• younger patients
• patients without indication for emergency endoscopy for bleeding situations