2010
DOI: 10.4081/ecj.2010.1.5
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Pulmonary embolism: the role of emergency scan and intervening radiology in medium-high-risk patients with pulmonary embolism

Abstract: Una donna di 71 anni giungeva in Pronto Soccorso alle ore 10,23 in seguito alla comparsa, dal giorno precedente, di dispnea da sforzo progressivamente ingravescente, seguita da dispnea a riposo ed associata ad almeno due episodi lipotimici. La paziente negava ogni altro sintomo. A domicilio, pur in assenza di dolore toracico, di una valutazione dei valori di pressione arteriosa e di indicazione medica, la paziente avrebbe assunto, a distanza di alcuni minuti, due compresse di trinitrina sublinguale ma, vista l… Show more

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“…In these situations emergency phisician's echographic cardiac study can be specially helpful for a serial patient management. 10 Hemodynamically unstable patients who have no time for definitive diagnostic imaging may gain benefit from bedside echocardiography that may reveal signs of massive PE and allow empiric potentially life-saving therapies. 9 We also attempted to obtain a CTPA to confirm the diagnosis, but we evaluated the patient with a bedside USG because she developed cardiopulmonary arrest.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In these situations emergency phisician's echographic cardiac study can be specially helpful for a serial patient management. 10 Hemodynamically unstable patients who have no time for definitive diagnostic imaging may gain benefit from bedside echocardiography that may reveal signs of massive PE and allow empiric potentially life-saving therapies. 9 We also attempted to obtain a CTPA to confirm the diagnosis, but we evaluated the patient with a bedside USG because she developed cardiopulmonary arrest.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%