The Oakland score offers the greatest discrimination and specificity for identifying patients with lower GI bleeding who can be safely discharged from the ED.
Acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding is a potentially life-threatening event requiring prompt assessment of haemodynamic status, localisation of the bleeding source and targeted intervention. Initial ...
Dual-energy CT demonstrated non-inferior diagnostic performance with an increased sensitivity and specificity compared to conventional triphasic CT in the detection of gastrointestinal bleeding and ...