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Guidelines for diagnosing pulmonary embolism (PE) recommend bedside risk stratification, for example the Wells score and D- dimer testing. Whereas a negative D- dimer test excludes PE in patients with… Click to show full abstract
Guidelines for diagnosing pulmonary embolism (PE) recommend bedside risk stratification, for example the Wells score and D- dimer testing. Whereas a negative D- dimer test excludes PE in patients with low pretest probability (Wells score ≤4.0), 1 patients with high pretest probability require an imaging test to exclude the condition. PE testing guidelines.
Keywords:
pulmonary embolism;
mapping emergency;
physician reasoning;
embolism;
emergency physician
Journal Title: Academic Emergency Medicine
Year Published: 2022
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Journal Title: Academic Emergency Medicine
Year Published: 2022
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