A quantitative exploration of gastrointestinal bleeding in intensive care unit patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Quantitative assessments of the severity of bleeding in patients with bleeds within the gastrointestinal tract (GIB) are generally limited to blood tests like the hematocrit. The varied and irregular nature of the data collected during such observations makes it difficult in retrospective data analysis to characterize the complete course of bleeding. We intend to quantify the rate of blood loss over the course of an ICU stay, facilitating more precise analysis of retrospective data, and to use this quantification to examine questions about the effects of GIB.

Methods and findings

A population of 2,445 intensive care admissions across 2,266 patients with a diagnosis of GIB was studied. Using statistical techniques for smoothing data and accepted medical approaches

SUBMITTER: Eschenfeldt PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6386222 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature