Pulmonary embolism response teams: Changing the paradigm in the care for acute pulmonary embolism.
J Thromb Haemost
; 20(11): 2457-2464, 2022 Nov.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2137109
ABSTRACT
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.
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Full text:
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pulmonary Embolism
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
J Thromb Haemost
Journal subject:
Hematology
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Jth.15832
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