Pollack, Charles V, Donald Schreiber, Samuel Z Goldhaber, David Slattery, John Fanikos, Brian J O’Neil, James R Thompson, et al. “Clinical Characteristics, Management, and Outcomes of Patients Diagnosed with Acute Pulmonary Embolism in the Emergency Department: Initial Report of EMPEROR … Read More »
Wiener, Renda Soylemez, Lisa M Schwartz, and Steven Woloshin. 2011. “Time trends in pulmonary embolism in the United States: evidence of overdiagnosis..” Archives of internal medicine 171 (9) (May 9): 831–837. PMID 21555660 Found this via a chap who commented on … Read More »
Aujesky D et al. Outpatient versus inpatient treatment for patients with acute pulmonary embolism: an international, open-label, randomised, non-inferiority trial. Lancet 2011 Jul.;378(9785):41–48. PMID 21703676 Most of you are probably treating PEs as out patients, we’ve been doing it for years … Read More »
[If you want to hear the best thing I’ve heard on this yet then listen to the SMART EM podcast] Perhaps I overstate things in the title, but I’m getting a little bit jaded with all things VTE these days. … Read More »
Hypoxia is almost ubiquitous in PE (In the comments Liam suggests otherwise. I honestly can’t find a clear answer. in PEITHO, a trial of submassive PE, 85% were receiving oxygen suggesting hypoxia. Certainly in the tiny PEs, lots of people don’t … Read More »