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Acute lower GI bleed pathway
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The following guidelines was written by a multi-disciplinary team, and has been approved by the Clinical Management Group, for the management of acute lower gastrointestinal bleeds throughout NHS Lothian. As a guideline, this is a general recommendation for the management of acute lower GI bleed; if there is variation due to clinical need, senior decision maker support should be sought.
The guide has been moved from the original format into the Right Decision System, however the contents of the guidelines are unchanged. The original document can be found here.
The Oakland score (if not accessed via MDCalc in the section above) is as follows:
- Oakland K, Chadwick G, East JE, et al Diagnosis and management of acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding: guidelines from the British Society of Gastroenterology Gut 2019;68:776-789. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2018-317807
Sections taken from Oakland et al. (2019) under the authors and BMJ's permission under the CC-BY-NC licence
Additional permission taken from BMJ via Copyright Clearance Centre