Re: word help - GI bleed

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Hi Bev,

Could that be type and cross match (in case of need for transfusion)?

I'd think they'd be doing that right away instead of waiting though.

Just guessing. )

Charlotte {Kansas}

word help - GI bleed

|IMPRESSION:

|1. Gastrointestinal bleed, probably last two months, etiology

undetermined.

|2. Anemia secondary to gastrointestinal bleed.

|3. Hypertension, essential.

|4. Diabetes mellitus, type II.

|

|PLAN:

|1. Admit the patient from observation to regular admit for

gastrointestinal

|bleed.

|2. Treat the patient as upper gastrointestinal bleed. Will continue

|intravenous Zantac.

|3. Possible repeat endoscopy.

|4. Continue treatment of diabetes mellitus and hypertension will

current

|medication.

|5. Daily hemoglobin and hematocrit to check for the status of the

bleed.

|6. s/l dip-in-crosmutz ?tip-in-crosmutz? ?type-in-crosscuts? if there

is a

|continuous drop of hemoglobin and possible transfer for emergency

endoscopy.

|

|I can't catch the first word in Plan #6. The first sylable is a long

i

|sound. Any idea of what this might be? At first I thought maybe a

|medication of some sort but now I don't think so. But if not a

medicine,

|what else? The dictator says this all in one breath. He is ESL but

usually

|speaks impressively clear.

|

|TIA

|

|Bev W.

|

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