Emergency X-Ray Examination in the Diagnosis of Severe Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Abstract

A CUTE and massive gastrointestinal hemorrhage is a serious and often life-threatening event. The necessity for early establishment of the actual site of bleeding has been a challenge to internists, surgeons, radiologists and other physicians for many years. Allen¹ and Welch² have emphasized the increased mortality with delayed surgery (often because the actual site of bleeding is not known) and have stressed the particular need for an accurate and immediately available diagnostic procedure in patients over fifty, in whom the mortality from bleeding is much greater than in younger persons. Jones,³ from an internist's point of view, states that proper . . .