Relationship between Thrombosis Risk Factors, Clinical Symptoms, and Laboratory Findings with Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis; a Cross-Sectional Study.

Conclusion: Although attention to thrombosis risk factors, clinical symptoms, and laboratory findings, can be helpful in screening patients with suspected PE, considering the ability of CT scan in confirming or ruling out other possible differential diagnoses, it seems that a revision should be done to lower the threshold of ordering this diagnostic modality for suspected cases. PMID: 31555771 [PubMed]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31555771?dopt=Abstract

Source: Accident and Emergency Nursing - September 27, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Bozorgmehr R, Pishgahi M, Mohaghegh P, Bayat M, Khodadadi P, Ghafori A Tags: Arch Acad Emerg Med Source Type: research