Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the time to emergency endoscopy and clinical outcomes in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate endoscopic management and clinical outcomes in patients with non-variceal upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

Methods

We retrospectively analyzed the data of 332 patients with non-variceal upper GI bleeding who underwent emergency upper GI endoscopy at three hospitals during the pandemic (April 2020-June 2021) and before the pandemic (January 2019-March 2020). The number of emergency upper GI endoscopies, time from hospital arrival to endoscopy, mortality within 30 days, rebleeding within 30 days, interventional radiology (IVR)/surgery requirement, composite outcome, rates of endoscopic hemostasis procedures, and second-look endoscopy were investigated using logistic regression.

Results

Overall,

SUBMITTER: Komatsu T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10638502 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature