This is the second year of this conference which I’m involved with. It covers the whole gamut of VTE care from basic science to DVT to PE with all of the different specialties involved. From an EM point of view we … Read More »
This is a big and important topic but still a little bit confusing to say the least. The way I want to view the world is like this. PE is not a single disease but instead something we should call … Read More »
This paper recently published trying to confirm if it’s OK to raise the d-dimer cut off in older people. “Age-Adjusted D-Dimer Cutoff Levels to Rule Out Pulmonary Embolism: the ADJUST-PE Study.” 311, no. 11 (March 19, 2014): 1117–1124. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.2135. PMID 24643601 … Read More »
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 »
[I suspect every emergency medicine blog eventually gets caught in the overwhelming gravitational pull of the VTE literature till it collapses into itself and sucks the whole of the internet into a wormhole. Apparently CERN is actually colliding the URLs … Read More »