Etiology of Bleeding

The evaluation and management of acute gastrointestinal bleeding in infants, children, and adolescents is a reason for emergency consultation frequently cited by pediatric gastroenterologists. After stabilization of the patient’s condition, endoscopic evaluation remains the most rapid and accurate method to identify the origin of acute bleeding in the y Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.U the various techniques and with the oscopic therapy and those that are racterized as those with high-risk eristics associated with a high like2007; accepted April 21, 2007. e and reprint requests to Marsha H. Kay, MD, oenterology and Nutrition, The Children’s nic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Ave, Desk