RT Book, Section
A1 Sule, Harsh
A2 Sherman, Scott C.
A2 Weber, Joseph M.
A2 Schindlbeck, Michael A.
A2 Rahul G., Patwari
SR Print(0)
ID 1101224625
T1 Pulmonary Embolism
T2 Clinical Emergency Medicine
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-179460-2
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1101224625
RD 2024/04/19
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.