TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Pulmonary Embolism A1 - Sule, Harsh A2 - Sherman, Scott C. A2 - Weber, Joseph M. A2 - Schindlbeck, Michael A. A2 - Rahul G., Patwari Y1 - 2014 N1 - T2 - Clinical Emergency Medicine AB - Consider pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients with complaints of dyspnea, chest pain, hemoptysis, or syncope.Dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain, or tachypnea is present in 92% of patients with PE.If PE is considered in the differential, use clinical decision rules (PERC, Wells, Geneva) to help guide decisions regarding the patient work-up.Consider thrombolytics in hemodynamically unstable patients with confirmed PE. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/06 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1101224625 ER -