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What is the basis for the recommendations provided in the guidelines for managing patients with varices and variceal hemorrhage in cirrhosis?
What is the basis for the recommendations provided in the guidelines for managing patients with varices and variceal hemorrhage in cirrhosis?
- Expert opinion
- Patient feedback
- Literature review, consensus conferences, guideline policies, and clinical experience (correct)
- Government regulations
What is the primary objective for patients with acute variceal hemorrhage?
What is the primary objective for patients with acute variceal hemorrhage?
- Preventing rebleeding
- Controlling the active episode and preventing rebleeding (correct)
- Preventing portal hypertension
- Controlling portal hypertension
What is the intended applicability of the guidelines for managing patients with varices and variceal hemorrhage in cirrhosis?
What is the intended applicability of the guidelines for managing patients with varices and variceal hemorrhage in cirrhosis?
- Applicable to a minority of patients
- Applicable to the majority of patients (correct)
- Applicable to all patients
- Applicable to patients with non-cirrhotic liver disease only
What justifies a course of action that differs from the recommendations provided in the guidelines?
What justifies a course of action that differs from the recommendations provided in the guidelines?
What organization(s) endorse the guidelines for managing patients with varices and variceal hemorrhage in cirrhosis?
What organization(s) endorse the guidelines for managing patients with varices and variceal hemorrhage in cirrhosis?
What is the level of evidence assigned to specific recommendations in the guidelines for managing patients with varices and variceal hemorrhage in cirrhosis?
What is the level of evidence assigned to specific recommendations in the guidelines for managing patients with varices and variceal hemorrhage in cirrhosis?
What is needed to clarify aspects of the guidelines for managing patients with varices and variceal hemorrhage in cirrhosis?
What is needed to clarify aspects of the guidelines for managing patients with varices and variceal hemorrhage in cirrhosis?
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Study Notes
- The guidelines provide an evidence-based approach to managing patients with varices and variceal hemorrhage in cirrhosis.
- The recommendations are based on literature review, consensus conferences, guideline policies, and clinical experience.
- They are intended to be flexible and applicable to the majority of patients.
- Specific recommendations are based on relevant published information and assigned a class and level of evidence.
- Clinical considerations may justify a course of action that differs from the recommendations.
- The guidelines are endorsed by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the American College of Gastroenterology.
- The management of portal hypertensive gastrointestinal bleeding depends on the phase of portal hypertension.
- The objective for patients with acute variceal hemorrhage is to control the active episode and prevent rebleeding.
- Further controlled clinical studies are needed to clarify aspects of the guidelines.
- Revision may be necessary as new data appear.
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