Curriculum for Specialty Certificate Examination in Gastroenterology

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Sunday, 7 April 2013

Question


Which of the following medications have been shown to be useful to improve endoscopic visibility when treating a patient with significant non-variceal upper GI bleeding?
A. IV omeprazole
B. IV vasopressin
 C. IV erythromycin
D. IV octreotide

2 comments:

  1. IV erythromycin has been shown to be a useful adjunctive measure in several studies to clear out blood from the stomach. There have now been several randomized studies that have shown an advantage to IV erythromycin 250 mg IV 3 hours given before endoscopy to improve visibility of the stomach in patients with significant non-variceal bleeding.

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