Pulmonary Embolism

“ Misdiagnosis in patients with an eventual diagnosis of PE is common. Clinicians should consider PE as differential diagnosis in patients”

— Kwok et al., (2022)

References:

1 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772632022000113#bib0004 

2 - https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/29/12/1008 

3- Acute Pulmonary Embolism - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf (nih.gov)

4 - D-dimer (labtestsonline.org.uk)

5 - Review of D‐dimer testing: Good, Bad, and Ugly - Linkins - 2017 - International Journal of Laboratory Hematology - Wiley Online Library

6- ESC Guidelines on Acute Pulmonary Embolism (Diagnosis and Management of) (escardio.org)

7- Overview | Venous thromboembolic diseases: diagnosis, management and thrombophilia testing | Guidance | NICE

8 - PERC Rule for Pulmonary Embolism (mdcalc.com) 

9 - NHS England » Same day emergency care

10- Submassive & Massive PE - EMCrit Project

11- Pulmonary Embolism Cardiac Arrest - CHEST (chestnet.org)

12 -https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jth.14865

13- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5986574/