Pulmonary Embolism Support Group
By far the most common form of pulmonary embolism is a thromboembolism, which occurs when a blood clot, generally a venous thrombus, becomes dislodged from its site of formation and embolizes to the arterial blood supply of one of the lungs. Symptoms may include difficulty breathing, pain during breathing, and more rarely circulatory instability and death.
Just came across a document covering diagnosis, treatment (in & out-patient and other interventions), patient education, recurrence risks, ...:
https://www.icsi.org/_asset/sw0pgp/VTE.pdf
Seems to be written for healthcare professionals, but it is a useful (a little dry) read and seemingly comprehensive.
https://www.icsi.org/_asset/sw0pgp/VTE.pdf
Seems to be written for healthcare professionals, but it is a useful (a little dry) read and seemingly comprehensive.
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https://www.icsi.org/_asset/sw0pgp/VTE.pdf
or google:
Dupras D, Bluhm J, Felty C, Hansen C, Johnson T, Lim K, Maddali S, Marshall P, Messner P, Skeik N. Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement. Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Treatment.
https://www.icsi.org/guidelines__more/catalog_guidelines_and_more/catalog_guidelines/catalog_cardiovascular_guidelines/vte_treatment/
It is worth the effort!
maybe?
Once you're in, use their search field and type in VTE, DVT, Pulmonary Embolism, etc. Several items will list if you do that.
I did get it, by googling
Dupras D, Bluhm J, Felty C, Hansen C, Johnson T, Lim K, Maddali S, Marshall P, Messner P, Skeik N. Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement. Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Treatment.
But once your in the site, yeah, there's some really good info in there.
Dupras D, Bluhm J, Felty C, Hansen C, Johnson T, Lim K, Maddali S, Marshall P, Messner P, Skeik N. Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement. Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Treatment
and it brought me directly to the pdf, not having to search for nada...
The described protocol (copyright in 2013) is what I have been accustomed at the TAT dept since 2007. Maybe due to the fact that the chief of staff at the TAT, is Dr. Phillip Wells, author of the The Wells scale of Clinical Pretest Probability of DVT, reffered many times in the PDF.
Anyways, an excellent read...
Maybe this PDF should be part of all DVT/PE patient info bag, so when they know their Dr. is not up to scratch,they can be presented with this litterature.
Just saying...