Smoking Bans Linked To Fewer Heart Attacks
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N E W O R L E A N S — The best predictors of in-hospital deterioration of patients diagnosed with acute pulmonary embolism in the emergency department are a shock index greater than 1 and a pulmonary embolism severity index score more than 100, according to data from the EMPEROR registry. The clinical implications: Calculate the pulmonary embolism severity index (PESI) and shock index routinely in patients with pulmonary embolism. And strongly consider admission to an ICU for those patients having values above the thresholds, Dr. Jeffrey A. Kline said at the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. He analyzed the prognostic accuracy of five predictors of inhospital adverse events in 2,188 consecutive patients diagnosed with pulmonary embolism in 22 EDs participating in the landmark EMPEROR (Emergency Medicine Pulmonary Embolism Meta-Analysis: PAH Therapies Cut Mortality by 43%
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