After successful endoscopy, patients are started on an intravenous infusion with proton pump inhibitor (PPI) for 72 hours. Thereafter, patients go onto receive an oral PPI or standard PPI H. pylori eradication therapy should the patient is infected. It is generally recommended that patients be transfused to a hemoglobin level of around 7 or 8 g/dl. In patients with significant cardiac co-morbidities, a higher transfusion threshold is allowed.