Inpatient Management of Pulmonary Embolism: Clinical Characteristics and Mortality in a High-Volume Tertiary Care Center.

ABSTRACT: The optimal management strategy for submassive or intermediate risk pulmonary embolism (IRPE)-anticoagulation alone versus anticoagulation plus advanced therapies-remains in equipoise leading many institutions to create multidisciplinary PE response teams (PERTs) to guide therapy. Cause-specific mortality of IRPE has not been thoroughly examined, which is a meaningful outcome when examining the effect of specific interventions for PE. In this retrospective study, we reviewed all adult inpatient admissions between 8/1/2018 and 8/1/2019 with an encounter diagnosis of PE to study all cause and PE cause specific mortality as the primary outcomes and bleeding complications from therapies as a secondary outcome. There were 429 total inpatient admissions, of which 59.7% were IRPE. The IRPE 30-day

SUBMITTER: Mudrakola HV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8754518 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature