Welcome to the Recess Room podcast.

Five, four, three, two, one, fire.

So hi, and welcome back to the Recess Room podcast. I'm Simon Lang, and I'm Rob Fenwick.

And this is a podcast that I've been looking forward to doing for a long, long time

So this is on the topic of massive PEs and thrombolysis

Oh clear cut then, no problems, we'll have it wrapped up in five minutes

So there is a lot of chitter chatter in foam about thromolising submassive pees, and everyone seems to be of the opinion that massive P.E. thrombolysis is pretty much a given. But there's some pretty interesting evidence base and guidelines that actually underpins this. I thought it might be worth unpicking this before we go on to another podcast where we'll

have a look at the submassive thrombolysis itself.

Sounds like a great plan.

I'm happy to roll with that.

Before we get on with it, a huge thanks to Abrak for sponsoring the podcast.

Right on with the topic.

Right, so I think we're all pretty aware that P.E.s are not actually a good thing.

Certainly the big ones.

Certainly the big ones.

Yeah, I'd agree with you on that.

Good.

Glad we're starting on the same sheet.

So, P.E. is a major cause of morbidity and mortality.

And, I mean, it is really difficult to come up with

epidemiological values of how prevalent this disease is, because we are picking up more and more

PEs as we investigate them. As our CT scanners get better and they're more sensitive, we're finding

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