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What would you want to ask about rectal bleeding?

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  • Duration, Onset, progression (how often), timing
  • Blood/malaena
  • On tissue or mixed in
  • When does it occur
  • Any mucus
  • How often are bowels moving
2
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What would you want to ask about on systemic enquiry?

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  • Weight loss
  • Appetite change
  • Dysphagia
  • N + V
  • Dyspepsia
  • Bowel habit change
  • Mucus in stool
3
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What features assocaited with rectal bleeding would suggest anal fissures as the cause?

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  • Bleeding on defecation
  • Bright red on tissue papaer
  • Intense anal pain
  • Constipation history
4
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What features associated with rectal bleeding would suggest haemorrhoids?

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  • Bleeding on defecation
  • Bright red on tissue
  • Constipation history
  • Anal pruritis
5
Q

What features associated with rectal bleeding suggest diverticular haemorrhage?

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  • Sudden painless rectal bleeding
  • Elderly
6
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What features assocaited with rectal bleeding may suggest dital polyps/malignancy as the casue?

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  • Alternating bowel habit
  • Weight loss
  • Urgency/tenesmus
  • Anal discomfort/pruritis
7
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What features assocaited with rectal bleeding would suggest IBD as a cause?

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  • Blood mixed with stool
  • Mucus
  • Diarrhoea
  • Abdominal pain
  • Weight loss
8
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What features assocaited with rectal bleeding would suggest haemorrhagic infective gastroeneteritis as the cause?

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  • Acute diarrhoea and vomiting
  • History of high risk food intake
9
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What features assocaited with rectal bleeding would suggest angiodysplasia as the cause?

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  • Elderly
  • Painless
  • Subtle
10
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What features of rectal bleeding suggest proximal polyp/malignancy?

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  • WEight loss
  • Anaemia symtpoms
11
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What features assocaited with rectal bleeding suggest haemorrhagic peptic ulcer/gastritis as the cause?

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12
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What features of rectal bleeding would suggest oesophageal varcies as a cause?

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  • History of liver disease/alcoholism
  • May have encephalopathy/alcohol withdrawal
  • HAematemesis
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