{"id":133,"date":"2013-10-26T19:01:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T19:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2013-10-26T19:01:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T19:01:24","slug":"lower-gi-bleeding-topics-in-general-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/lower-gi-bleeding-topics-in-general-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower GI Bleeding &#8211; Topics in General Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Lower GI Bleeding<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Distal to ligament of Treitz<\/li>\n<li>Most common causes of lower GI bleeding: \u00a01. Diverticulosis (usually right sided), 2. Vascular ectasia<\/li>\n<li>Must rule out <strong>upper<\/strong> GI bleeding with lower GI bleeding. \u00a0Use NGT aspiration and\/or EGD.<\/li>\n<li>If massive bleeding &#8211; consider angiogram<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If slow bleeding &#8211; consider colonoscopy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If colonoscopy is negative consider tagged RBC study<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>tagged RBC scan<\/strong> (radiolabeled) can detect bleeding at a rate of <strong>0.1 ml\/Min<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Angiogram detects 1ml\/Min<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lower GI Bleeding Distal to ligament of Treitz Most common causes of lower GI bleeding: \u00a01. Diverticulosis (usually right sided), 2. Vascular ectasia Must rule out upper GI bleeding with lower GI bleeding. \u00a0Use NGT aspiration and\/or EGD. If massive bleeding &#8211; consider angiogram If slow bleeding &#8211; consider colonoscopy If colonoscopy is negative consider &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/lower-gi-bleeding-topics-in-general-surgery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lower GI Bleeding &#8211; Topics in General Surgery<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lower-gi-bleeding","category-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}