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Thu Aug 12 08:18:20 BST 2004

Instead of gastric lavage I prefer the Swedish massage. I find that the
release of muscle tension will decrease the amount of bleeding. I think the
New England Journal of Medicine has a number of articles relating to this.
It is time that we, as care givers touch our patients more. Any resident
trained EM physician knows this.

CHRIS M. BOYER
Emergency Medicine Consultant
Hayman Daugherty Associates
5105 Old Ellis Pointe
Roswell, GA 30076
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Email: cboyer at haymandaugherty.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: KMATTOX at aol.com [mailto:KMATTOX at aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:49 AM
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Cc: ccm-l at list.pitt.edu
Subject: Re: rapid infusers

In a message dated 8/11/2004 10:19:26 PM Central Standard Time,
c0ntagion at punkass.com writes:

It has  been
especially beneficial in GI bleed patients during gastric lavage when  large
amounts of blood are lost and the patient is hemodynamically  unstable

Does not this tactic in this kind of patient actually INCREASE the
bleeding.
 Is there any data to suggest that such gastric lavage should be  done?

k

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