Emergency consultation for epistaxis: A bad predictor for overall health?

With the present data a trivial event such as epistaxis, especially when anteriorly located, needs to be seen in a new light. Emergency consultation because of nose bleeding might be an unexpected bad predictor for mortality. Although conclusions need to be considered with caution due to the retrospective character of the study, we regard epistaxis as an independent alarm-signal. After an acute nose bleed requiring emergency consultation, active collaboration with the patient's general practitioner and additional efforts to check for the patient's general health might be more useful than so far assumed.