TamingtheSRU
TamingtheSRU
UC Department of Emergency Medicine
When More is Less: Re-examining CTA use in GI Bleeds
5 minutes Posted Nov 7, 2025 at 3:52 am.
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Gastrointestinal bleeding is a frequent and potentially life-threatening presentation in the ED. With CT angiography increasingly being used as a first-line diagnostic tool, are we improving detection or simply overusing imaging? Join Dr. Guillaume as she discusses this recent JAMA Network Open study examining trends in CTA utilization for GI bleeding and whether rising scan rates are truly leading to better diagnostic yield.