Podcast 143 – Hemodynamic Management of Massive Pulmonary Embolism (PE) - a podcast by Scott D. Weingart, MD FCCM

This is a lecture by Oren Friedman from the 2015 EMCrit Conference. See Oren's previous lecture on Clot Management in Pulmonary Embolism for the complete picture.

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* Does epoprostenol work for these patients? Not according to this small RCT  [cite source='pubmed']20353588[/cite]

* NO in 4 pt case series

* If the patient codes, definitely give lytics if there are no contraindications, or so says the PEAPETT study (10.1016/j.ajem.2016.06.094)

* Pathophys of the Pulmonary Vasoconstriction (Cardiovasc Res 2000;48:22)



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* PulmCrit on Crashing PE

* Sara Crager has an amazing lecture for EMRAP subscibers



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