Villanueva C, et al. Transfusion Strategies for Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding. 2013 Jan 3;368(1):11-21.
Recently, I presented the landmark article for promoting a restrictive transfusion strategy in upper GI bleeding (UGIB) at our journal club. I spent a fair amount of time researching the background to this study. Suffice it to say, there's been a lot of nerds manufacturing non-evidenced based guidelines for decades regarding this issue. They usually met in Italy, so I can understand the draw to convene. This study aimed to set the record straight on transfusion strategy for undifferentiated UGIB.
