Pulmonary Embolism

EM Clerkship

Zack Olson, MD and Michael Estephan, MD

Education, Courses, Health & Fitness, Medicine

5 • 795 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Introduction Pulmonary embolism (PE) is caused when a deep venous thrombosis from somewhere else in the body “embolizes” and becomes lodged in the pulmonary arteries Can cause pulmonary infarction (which mimics pneumonia on chest x-ray) Basic Approach to the Diagnosis of PE Step 1: Consider PE in any patient with signs or symptoms consistent with […]

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0:00.0	Hello, med students. This episode has been sponsored by Freed AI. Do you dread the thought of
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0:39.3	www.gitfreed.a.i. Hello, med students. My name is Zach Olson and thank you for downloading
0:50.8	this week's episode of the EM Clerkship Podcast.
0:56.6	It's been two weeks since our last episodes.
0:59.2	Your brain should be nice and refreshed.
1:01.5	So listen up.
1:02.6	No fluff this week.
1:04.1	We're about to have the talk.
1:07.2	And I will say that I'm both honored and scared to be giving you the PE talk this week.
1:13.3	This is one of the most clinically useful discussions we will ever have on this podcast because
1:18.8	this topic has been and continues to be hot.
1:22.9	This is so high yield.
1:24.6	You don't even realize it yet.
1:27.1	You're going to hear lots of different spins on this talk,
1:30.0	and I have had several attendings who will disagree with what I'm about to say until the day I die,
1:35.4	but I've read a lot about this, and quite frankly, I'm going to tell you what I absolutely believe
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