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Small Bowel Bleeding - Scoping Summary
 • General Principles of Management
 • Optimal Timing for Capsule
Small Bowel Bleeding ... Enteroscopy • Therapeutic ... #SmallBowel #Bleeding
HAS-BLED Score - Risk of Major Bleeding in 1 Year
Characteristics (1 point each)
 • Hypertension: Baseline
Risk of Major Bleeding ... History Of major bleeding ... Unstable INR: Time in Therapeutic ... #Score #Risk #Bleeding
HAS-BLED Score
 - Hypertension: Baseline SBP > 160mmHg
 - Renal disease: Cr > 2.6mg/dL, on HD,
History of major bleeding ... Unstable INR: Time in Therapeutic ... #Risk #Score #Bleeding
Additional Modalities for Workup of GI Bleed (Other than EGD + Colonoscopy)

Pill endoscopy
 • Able to
localization, non-therapeutic ... bleed may obscure bleeding ... perform • Non-therapeutic ... Angiography • Therapeutic ... pathology, non-therapeutic
Managing warfarin INR

Warfarin dosage must be individualized according to the patient's response to the drug, and
lead to severe bleeding ... optimal TTR (time in therapeutic
Warfarin - INR Goals, Initial Dosing and Bridging

Mechanical Mitral Valve Replacement 2.5-3.5 
Other Valve Replacement 2-3
elderly or have high bleeding ... trying to get to therapeutic ... and until INR is therapeutic
Indications for therapeutic intervention of pancreatic pseudocysts.
Complicated pancreatic pseudocysts (one criterion sufficient)
 • Compression of large
Indications for therapeutic ... gastrointestinal bleeding
Indications for tPA in Stroke:
 • Clinical diagnosis of ischemic stroke
 • Measurable neurologic deficit
 •
Active internal bleeding ... 100,000/mm3 • Therapeutic
Guidelines for the Management of Supratherapeutic INR - American College of Chest Physicians
INR above therapeutic range
Physicians INR above therapeutic ... INR falls within therapeutic ... INR falls within therapeutic ... high risk for bleeding ... when INR within therapeutic
Gastroenterology Endoscopy Tools and Accessories - A Visual Catalog for Trainees and Young Gastroenterologists
Biopsy Forceps:
precise site of bleeding ... as fistula, Gl bleeding ... - Diagnostic, therapeutic ... - Diagnostic, therapeutic ... - Diagnostic, therapeutic