Piotr Kukla, William F McIntyre, Kamil Fijorek, Ewa Krupa, Ewa Mirek-Bryniarska, Marek Jastrzębski, Krzysztof L Bryniarski, Wiktor Zajchowski, Leszek Bryniarski, Adrian Baranchuk
BACKGROUND: European recommendations on the management of acute pulmonary embolism (APE) divide patients into 3 risk categories: high, intermediate, and low. Mortality has previously been estimated at 3% to 15% in the intermediate group. The aim of this study was to use a new metric "ischemic electrocardiographic (ECG) patterns" to more precisely estimate the risk (complications or death) of APE patients identified as "intermediate risk" by current European Society of Cardiology (ESC) criteria...
October 2014: American Journal of Emergency Medicine