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Venous Thromboembolism in Transgender & Gender Diverse (TGD) Persons

Venous Thromboembolism in Transgender & Gender Diverse (TGD) Persons

by Rebecca Seliga, Alex Coutin, Michael Kruse | Jun 29, 2022 | Cardiology, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Thrombosis

You are working an urgent care shift and you access your ED electronic track-board to pick up the next patient waiting to be seen: You assign yourself to patient Smith, and notice a helpful comment from your triage nurse stating the patient’s name is Angela. You...
Prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism Among Patients With COPD Hospitalized With Acutely Worsening Respiratory Symptoms

Prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism Among Patients With COPD Hospitalized With Acutely Worsening Respiratory Symptoms

by Hans Rosenberg | May 31, 2021 | Journal Club, Respirology, Thrombosis

Methodology: 3/5 Usefulness: 3/5 Couturaud F, et al. JAMA. 2021 Jan 5;325(1):59-68.  Question and Methods: This study used a multicenter, cross-sectional methodology with prospective follow up to determine the rates of PE in 740 COPD patients using the rGeneva score....
Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnancy: Diagnostic Dilemmas

Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnancy: Diagnostic Dilemmas

by Renee Bradley, Pascale King | May 28, 2020 | Featured

Epidemiology of pulmonary embolism in pregnancy The rate of pulmonary embolism (PE) in pregnancy is 5.4 per 10 000 pregnancies. This is 5x the risk of the general non-pregnant female population The rates of venous thromboembolism change throughout pregnancy:...
Interstitial Lung Disease in the ED: “I think I’ve got the Black Lung Pop”

Interstitial Lung Disease in the ED: “I think I’ve got the Black Lung Pop”

by Matthew Lipinski, Richard Hoang | Oct 4, 2018 | Featured

In this post, we cover the often seen, but poorly understood entity of Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD). We will focus our discussion on the key features and approaches that the front-line provider needs to know to feel confident managing the newly diagnosed ILD...
Fibrinolysis in Acute Pulmonary Embolism

Fibrinolysis in Acute Pulmonary Embolism

by Mike Hickey, Peter Reardon | Sep 11, 2018 | Critical Care, Featured

Systemic fibrinolysis (SF) in acute pulmonary embolism (PE) remains a hot topic in acute care medicine. This post will examine the available literature regarding the use of SF in different subtypes of PE. Before examining the literature, we first must review the...
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