104 research outputs found
Pulmonary embolism response teams: Changing the paradigm in the care for acute pulmonary embolism
Pulmonary embolism response teams (PERTs) have emerged as a multidisciplinary, multispecialty team of experts in the care of highly complex symptomatic acute pulmonary embolism (PE), with a centralized unique activation process, providing rapid multimodality assessment and risk stratification, formulating the best individualized diagnostic and therapeutic approach, streamlining the care in challenging clinical case scenarios (e.g., intermediate-high risk and high-risk PE), and facilitating the implementation of the recommended therapeutic strategies on time. PERTs are currently changing how complex acute PE cases are approached. The structure, organization, and function of a given PERT may vary from hospital to hospital, depending on local expertise, specific resources, and infrastructure for a given academic hospital center. Current emerging data demonstrate the value of PERTs in improving time to PE diagnosis; shorter time to initiation of anticoagulation reducing hospital length of stay; increasing use of advanced therapies without an increase in bleeding; and in some reports, decreasing mortality. Importantly, PERTs are positively impacting outcomes by changing the paradigm of care for acute PE through global adoption by the health-care community
Pulmonary embolism response teams in the challenging era of venous thromboembolism associated with COVID-19
Impact and role of pulmonary embolism response teams in venous thromboembolism associated with COVID-19
Role of Baseline Echocardiography in Preoperative Management of Liver Transplant Candidates
Hepatopulmonary syndrome: Is it time to redefine the MELD exception score for better organ allocation and outcomes?
Cardiopulmonary hemodynamics for accurate diagnosis of portopulmonary hypertension: A redefinition to consider
Angiojet rheolytic thrombectomy combined with catheter fragmentation in a patient presenting with massive pulmonary embolism and cardiogenic shock
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