scholarly journals Observation management of pulmonary embolism and agreement with claims-based and clinical risk stratification criteria in United States patients: a retrospective analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Nguyen ◽  
Craig I. Coleman ◽  
W. Frank Peacock ◽  
Philip S. Wells ◽  
Erin R. Weeda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pulmonary Embolism ◽  
Risk Stratification ◽  
Retrospective Analysis ◽  
Clinical Risk

scholarly journals Screening for Pulmonary Embolism with a D-Dimer Assay: Do we Still Need to Assess Clinical Probability as Well?

2005 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J Hammond ◽  
Tajek B Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Pulmonary Embolism ◽  
Risk Stratification ◽  
Retrospective Analysis ◽  
Emergency Departments ◽  
Latex Agglutination ◽  
Agglutination Assay ◽  
Clinical Risk ◽  
Clinical Probability ◽  
D Dimer ◽  
Latex Agglutination Assay

Clinical risk stratification and D-dimer assay can be of use in excluding pulmonary embolism in patients presenting to emergency departments but many D-dimer assays exist and their accuracy varies. We used clinical risk stratification combined with a quantitative latex-agglutination D-dimer assay to screen patients before arranging further imaging if required. Retrospective analysis of a sequential series of 376 patients revealed that no patient with a D-dimer of <275 ng/mL was diagnosed with pulmonary embolism, irrespective of clinical probability. We conclude that a latex-agglutination assay could be used to exclude pulmonary embolism without the necessity for clinical risk stratification. If these findings are borne out by further work, D-dimer strategies to exclude pulmonary embolism could substantially reduce imaging workload.

scholarly journals Surgical Thrombectomy for Pulmonary Embolism: Updated Performance Rates and Outcomes

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 172-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fahad Alqahtani ◽  
Muhammad Bilal Munir ◽  
Sami Aljohani ◽  
Abdul Tarabishy ◽  
Ahmad Almustafa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pulmonary Embolism ◽  
Risk Stratification ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Data ◽  
National Inpatient Sample ◽  
Surgical Thrombectomy

Treatments for pulmonary embolism are numerous and often complex. Current data on surgical thrombectomy are important but are not readily available. We studied the National Inpatient Sample to evaluate trends in the performance rates and outcomes of surgical thrombectomy in the United States from 2003 through 2014. We think that our findings have meaningful application to the triage and risk stratification of patients who have hemodynamically significant pulmonary embolism.

The application of a clinical risk stratification score may reduce unnecessary investigations for pulmonary embolism in pregnancy

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 1461-1464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare O’Connor ◽  
John Moriarty ◽  
Jennifer Walsh ◽  
John Murray ◽  
Sam Coulter-Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pulmonary Embolism ◽  
Risk Stratification ◽  
Clinical Risk ◽  
In Pregnancy ◽  
Risk Stratification Score
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