The Blakemore/Minnesota Tube – Sunday Scary
Controlling the Upper GI Bleed...DROP THE TUBE! The Case: 40-something yr old female, known alcoholic with history of esophageal varices presents to the ED with upper GI bleed. Pt is unstable and you gain control of the airway, place a left femoral cordis and start MTP with the rapid infuser. While GI, Surgery, ICU are all at bedside debating what to do, you make numerous suggestions to place a Blakemore (or in our beloved Coney ED a Minnesota) with everyone looking at you in bewilderment on how to place one. Indications to place the tube: -The unstable pa
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