Description

Cirrhosis is a common chronic liver disease with gastrointestinal bleeding being one of its complications. Gastrointestinal bleeding is quite common in patients with cirrhosis, but its prognosis is difficult to accurately predict. In current clinical practice, critical care physicians often use physiological indicators to assess the risk level of patients. Among them, the Shock Index and its derived indicators such as the Modified Shock Index, Age Shock Index, and Respiratory Adjusted Shock Index have been widely used in other fields, but their actual value in patients with cirrhosis complicated by gastrointestinal bleeding is not yet clear.

The prognosis of cirrhosis patients with gastrointestinal bleeding affects the quality of life and survival of the patients, thus necessitating the establishment of a reliable prognostic assessment tool to assist critical care physicians in making rapid treatment decisions. The motivation of this study is to explore the application value of Shock Index-related indicators in predicting the prognosis of cirrhosis patients with gastrointestinal bleeding, in order to improve the medical efficiency for this specific group of critically ill patients.