Pulmonary Embolism General BroadCAST

Pulmonary Embolism is a common emergency presentation to paramedics and emergency medicine clinicians.
We discuss why PEs cause right ventricular strain, the types of PE from massive, to submassive and subsegmental, how to work up and diagnose pulmonary embolism, how do D-Dimers work? and what are the high risk pulmonary embolism criteria.

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