Tag: PE

PE or not PE, that is the question…

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Written by Randi Ozaki             …and probably one of the more annoying clinical questions that we’re faced with in the ED. PERC (pulmonary embolism rule-out criteria), D-dimer and Well’s criteria have been discussed ad nauseam,…

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Don’t just do something, stand there.

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Bad things happen.  Trauma and tragic illnesses take the young and old.  The world is not kind or just.  And we, emergency docs, work at the intersection of daily life and tragedy.  We strive to mitigate illness and injury.  But…

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