TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF PULMONARY EMBOLISM

Abstract

Of pulmonary embolism associated with high morbidity and mortality. Diagnosis within one month of around 12 percent. cases of pulmonary embolism resulting in death. U.S. during the years of the pulmonary die about 600 thousand. people. For easier diagnostic issues and choosing the most efective treatment strategies, guidelines for diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism published in 2008 by European Society of Cardiology, were presented to use Geneva and Wells scores for assessment of clinical probability of PE. Current guidelines suggest replacing terms such as „massive, sub-massive, non-massive“ with the estimated levels of risk of PE-related early death, witch is determined according to patients haemodynamic stability. he primarily aim in haemodynamicly unstable patients is urgent restoration of the low through occluded pulmonary arteries, with potentially life-saving efects.