Recommended Citation
Porres-Aguilar M, Rosovsky RP, Rivera-Lebron BN, Kaatz S, Mukherjee D, Anaya-Ayala JE, Jimenez D, and Jerjes-Sánchez C. Pulmonary embolism response teams: Changing the paradigm in the care for acute pulmonary embolism. J Thromb Haemost 2022.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-27-2022
Publication Title
Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH
Abstract
Pulmonary embolism response teams (PERTs) have emerged as a multidisciplinary, multispecialty team of experts in the care of highly complex symptomatic acute pulmonary embolism (PE), with a centralized unique activation process, providing rapid multimodality assessment and risk stratification, formulating the best individualized diagnostic and therapeutic approach, streamlining the care in challenging clinical case scenarios (e.g., intermediate-high risk and high-risk PE), and facilitating the implementation of the recommended therapeutic strategies on time. PERTs are currently changing how complex acute PE cases are approached. The structure, organization, and function of a given PERT may vary from hospital to hospital, depending on local expertise, specific resources, and infrastructure for a given academic hospital center. Current emerging data demonstrate the value of PERTs in improving time to PE diagnosis; shorter time to initiation of anticoagulation reducing hospital length of stay; increasing use of advanced therapies without an increase in bleeding; and in some reports, decreasing mortality. Importantly, PERTs are positively impacting outcomes by changing the paradigm of care for acute PE through global adoption by the health-care community.
PubMed ID
35895858
ePublication
ePub ahead of print
