When should surgical consult for GI bleed be considered?

Consider surgical consult when patient:

• continues to bleed dispite nonoperative management


• has a massive active GI bleed causing hemodynamic compromise with no time to consider less invasive means of localizing and stopping the bleeding

Source

Cagir, Burt. "Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Surgical Perspective." eMedicine. 9 Nov 2007 <http://www.emedicine.com>