Hello, students. My name is Mike Estefan and I thank you for joining me today on this month's deep dive episode on the EM Clerkship podcast.

Today's episode is going to be a deep dive on GI Bleeds. But before we begin, just a word from our sponsor at Pearson Rabbitits Insurance, which is my own personal disability insurance

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Now, back to our episode. Let's talk GI bleeds, specifically upper GI bleeds. Now, I personally

break these patients up into two different categories. You have your HPI patient and your ABC patient.

And this is exactly what it sounds like. Your typical HPI patient will be a GI bleed that is

hemodynamicly stable and you have the time to perform a full history and physical lawn.

Whereas your ABC patient is your GI bleed that needs

resuscitation now.

Let's start by talking about the history portion for our HPI patient.

I take the time to ask questions here, and I always ask what color the blood is, meaning

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