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20659652

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-7-27
pubmed:abstractText
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is the most dangerous complication of venous thrombosis. Objectively confirmed PE is a potentially life-threatening complication of critical illness. In medical-surgical critically ill patients, signs and symptoms are nonspecific, the clinical pretest probability may be low, and diagnostic tests may not be done or may yield ambiguous results. Therefore, PE is often undiagnosed and untreated; autopsy findings indicate that PE is common in intensive care unit (ICU) decedents. PE may delay weaning from mechanical ventilation, increase the length of stay in ICU and hospital, and increase the risk of death. More research is needed on PE in medical-surgical ICU patients including issues on the epidemiologic aspects of PE (including risk factors and attributable morbidity and mortality) and treatment of PE (including pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic approaches, determinants of treatment variation, and predictors of PE outcome adjusted for treatment).
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1558-1977
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2010. Published by Elsevier Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
677-82, vii
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Pulmonary embolism in medical-surgical critically ill patients.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. debcook@mcmaster.ca
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article