Personalized Acute Upper GI Bleeding Diagnostics for Patients at Highest Risk for Endoscopy: Real-World Experience of a Novel, Binary, Bedside Gastric Blood Detection Device
Hadi Khaled Abou Zeid, Manik Aggarwal, Jad P. AbiMansour, Miranda Hamlin, Yara Salameh, Karl Akiki, Andrew C. Storm · 2025
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Hadi Khaled Abou Zeid and six co-authors report real-world use of a swallowable blood sensor in a 2025 study. Bleeding in the upper gut is a common emergency, yet many patients get an urgent camera exam and turn out not to be bleeding. The capsule, PillSense, gives a simple yes-or-no reading for blood in the stomach at the bedside.
The team reviewed twenty-eight high-risk patients at one academic center. Positive readings went with more transfusions, faster scoping, and far more treatment during the exam. Among patients at high risk from sedation, a negative reading led doctors to defer the scope in over half the cases, with no harm seen in thirty days. The authors see triage gains for the sickest group.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hadi Khaled Abou Zeid, Manik Aggarwal, Jad P. AbiMansour, Miranda Hamlin, Yara Salameh, Karl Akiki, Andrew C. Storm |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |