The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

#92: Pulmonary Embolism for the Internist

04.23.2018 - By The Curbsiders Internal Medicine PodcastPlay

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Wow the crowd with your knowledge of pulmonary embolism! What are the red flags? What tools are available to guide you? How on Earth do you triage a patient with pulmonary embolism (PE)? What exactly is the RV spiral & how do PEs really cause morbidity and mortality?! Get schooled by pulmonary embolism expert, Dr. Oren Friedman, associate director of the Cardiac-Surgical Intensive care unit at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. Doctors Cyrus Askin and Chris Chiu join as co-hosts. Test Yo’ Self Pulmonary embolism quiz

Written by Cyrus Askin, MD, Justin Berk, MD, MBA, MPH. Figure by Cyrus Askin, MD. Edited by Matthew Watto, MD

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Time Stamps

5:10 - Start of Interview / Introduction 10:00 - Case Presentation - Introduction of DVT / PE Spectrum and Pathophysiology 16:18 - How to Triage and Work-Up Pulmonary Embolism (CT, Echo, troponins, “eyeball”) 23:30 - Other ways to risk-stratify (Other CT findings, clot burden) 28:45 - What does a low-risk patient look like? 30:35 - When to consider treatment modalities other than general anticoagulation 35:12 - Anticoagulation treatment options 36:38 - Next step intensive interventions after anticoagulation 42:00 - Evidence behind catheter-directed lysis 44:05 - IVC Filter discussion 47:22 - Discharge criteria for PE 50:00 - Incidental PEs 52:40 - Interdisciplinary PERT Team

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