A pulmonary embolism can be life-threatening and nurses have a huge role to play in improving patient outcomes. This article discusses diagnosis, risk factors and preventive management Pulmonary ...

Ruling Out Pulmonary Embolism With A Simple Bedside Protocol Date: May 18, 2007 Source: Elsevier Health Sciences Summary: Although pulmonary embolisms (PE) are the second-leading cause of sudden ...

The Pulmonary Embolism Rule-out Criteria, or the PERC rule, functions as a way to rule out clots in the lung. The blood test, called D-Dimer, has a very low specificity for PE, leading to many ...

What Is Pulmonary Vascular Disease? The definition of pulmonary vascular disease is simple: any condition that affects the blood vessels along the route between the heart and lungs. Blood travels ...

Leiden, the Netherlands - A simpler way of diagnosing pulmonary embolism than currently used has been proposed by a group of Dutch researchers [1]. In a paper in the January 11, 2006 issue of the ...

A pulmonary embolism most often starts in your legs, in one of the veins that brings blood to your heart and lungs. Making sure that blood flows freely can help prevent another blood clot.

About 900,000 people are affected by pulmonary embolism (PE) each year in the United States, according to the American Lung Association and about 100,000 people die each year as a result of the ...

A screening blood test originally validated in seriously ill patients without COVID-19 is still clinically useful for ruling out pulmonary embolism in patients hospitalized with the coronavirus, a ...