Ruling out Pulmonary Embolism in Patients with High Pretest Probability

Introduction: The American College of Emergency Physicians guidelines recommend more aggressive workup beyond imaging alone in patients with a high pretest probability (PTP) of pulmonary embolism (PE). However, the ability of multiple tests to safely rule out PE in high PTP patients is not known. We...

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Main Authors: Murtaza Akhter, Jeffrey Kline, Bikash Bhattarai, Mark Courtney, Christopher Kabrhel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2018-03-01
Series:Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/74h4h8qb