Science and Research

[Pulmonary embolism]

Pulmonary embolism is a potentially fatal disorder and frequently seen in critical care and emergency medicine. Due to a high mortality rate within the first few hours, the accurate initiation of rational diagnostic pathways in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism and timely consecutive treatment is essential. In this review, the current European guidelines on the diagnosis and therapy of acute pulmonary embolism are presented. Special focus is put on a structured patient management based on the individual risk of early mortality. In particular risk assessment and new risk-adjusted treatment recommendations are presented and discussed in this article.

  • Hecker, M.; Sommer, N.; Hecker, A.; Bandorski, D.; Weigand, M. A.; Krombach, G. A.; Mayer, E.; Walmrath, D.

Keywords

  • Anticoagulants/*therapeutic use
  • Cause of Death
  • Computed Tomography Angiography
  • Critical Care
  • *Early Medical Intervention
  • Emergency Service, Hospital
  • Guideline Adherence
  • Humans
  • Multidetector Computed Tomography
  • Prognosis
  • Pulmonary Embolism/*diagnosis/*drug therapy/mortality
  • Risk Assessment
  • Thrombolytic Therapy/*methods
  • *D-dimer
  • *Lung diseases
  • *Probability
  • *Risk factors
  • *Therapeutic thrombolysis
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/s00063-015-0114-z
Journal: Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin
Pages: 163-75; quiz 176-7 
Number: 2
Work Type: Review
Location: UGMLC
Disease Area: General Lung and Other
Partner / Member: JLU
Access-Number: 26621816
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