Randomized Trial of UI-EWD vs. Conventional Endoscopic Therapy for Nonvariceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Participation Requirements

• Sex:

  ALL

• Eligible Ages:

  22 and up

Participation Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Adults age 22 years or older
2. Presentation with acute overt gastrointestinal bleeding (hematemesis, melena, and/or hematochezia)
3. Subject voluntarily agrees to participate in the clinical investigation, provides written informed consent, and will be able to comply with the investigational protocol in the opinion of the site investigator
4. Cause of bleeding as determined at upper endoscopy is one of the following sources: a gastric or duodenal ulcer with active bleeding (spurting or oozing) or a non-bleeding visible vessel; an esophageal, gastric or duodenal tumor with active bleeding or a non-bleeding visible vessel; a gastric or duodenal Dieulafoy lesion with active bleeding or a non-bleeding visible vessel; or an actively bleeding Mallory-Weiss tear. The definition of "active oozing" will require bleeding to persist for ≥ 3 minutes of endoscopic observation.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Incarceration
2. Subjects that are not able to provide written informed consent
3. Pregnancy or nursing mothers
4. Endoscopic hemostatic treatment in the past 30 days
5. Use of triple antithrombotic therapy at the time of presentation
6. Subjects who underwent gastric or duodenal endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) or endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) procedures within the past 2 months
7. Post-polypectomy bleeding
8. Subjects with erosive esophagitis, erosive gastritis, esophageal ulcer, or vascular ectasia including gastric antral vascular ectasia
9. Platelet count \< 50 x 10\^9/L
10. INR \> 3.5 (or prothrombin time \>35 seconds in patient not on warfarin and only prothrombin time is provided by local lab), at time of procedure or closest to procedure time
11. Subjects who have documented galactose intolerance, Lapp lactase deficiency or glucose-galactose malabsorption
12. Subjects with documented hypersensitivity to Brilliant Blue FCF
13. Subjects with suspected bowel obstruction or gastrointestinal fistulas, and those suspected or are at high risk of having gastrointestinal perforation.
14. Endoscopy not performed within 36 hours of presentation to hospital/emergency department