Rapid Diagnosis: Vomiting Blood
The dispatcher reports that the patient is vomiting blood. Hemataemesis if you want to be technical about it. It could be a whole bunch of things right? … Well yes it could. Before you e-mail me to say that you can’t believe I missed Bolivian Hemorrhagic Fever, here’s one web site that lists 113 possibilities.
But if you want to play the numbers, it’s going to be one of four things. And if you want to play “stump your partner” you can narrow it down quite a bit based on your patients age and disposition.
There are four things that tend to cause a person to vomit blood. Before you click on the little “read more” link, how many can you name?
