UMEM Educational Pearls

Title: Balloon Tamponade for Gastroesophageal Variceal Bleeding

Posted: 5/23/2022 by William Teeter, MD (Updated: 12/26/2024)
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Encountered a situation in CCRU where we needed to prepare for a patient exsanguinating from gastric varices, and found a great summary of the different types of gastroesophageal balloons from EMRAP.

Summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv4muh0hX7Y

More in depth video on the Minnesota tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FHIiA_doWU

Nice review article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0736467921009136