Hello and welcome everyone this is Eric you're listening to the med geeks

podcast today is part two of our discussion on pulmonary embolism if you haven't

listened to part one go back and check that out that's where we talked about

the pathoph physiology and the presentation of PEs.

Today we're focusing more on the actual workup of pulmonary embolism and how we're going to

manage these patients as well.

We're going to get right into it so without further ado

let's go ahead and drop the beat. All right, so we talked about last time about how sneaky pulmonary emboli can be and I think today's

discussion hopefully will clarify the workup for the patients in whom we are

suspecting a PE. A quick note though when a patient complains of things like shortness of breath or

chest pain, there's a lot of things we're going to be testing, a lot of orders that are

going to go in. For example, we'll probably be ordering cardiac enzymes, we'll probably

be ordering things like a BMP potentially depending on the scenario.

In order to keep things focused for our discussion today though, I've just, I'm focusing specifically

on PE.

What's going to be helpful for the PE. So for example, if you're working

up a PE, you may also be ordering a Treponin. The Treponin doesn't really help you decide whether

or not it's a PE specifically.

That would be more towards the ACS side of things,

but it might still be ordered on the same patient.

In other words, we're not going to be

talking about how to work up a complaint today,

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