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Question:
As an EMT, what do you suspect when a patient has coffee-ground emesis?
A
gastrointestinal (GI) bleed
explanation
A presentation of coffee-ground emesis results from an upper GI bleed that has slowed or stopped, converting the red hemoglobin to brown hematin by gastric acid.
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