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Description

Purpose:

Provide RNs education on the classifications of PEs and new catheter directed treatment options.

Significance:

  • PE remains a common and lethal entity
  • PE is the 3rd leading cause of cardiovascular death in hospitalized patients (60,000-1000,000 per year)
  • 150,000-250,000 PE related hospitalizations per year
  • RNs must be knowledgeable of the classifications of PEs and catheter directed therapies to promote positive patient outcomes
  • Prior to catheter directed therapies, submassive PEs had a mortality rate up to 20% at 3 months and were traditionally treated with IV heparin, or oral anticoagulant therapy

Publication Date

2021

Keywords

Pulmonary embolism, Nursing continuing education, Risk assessment, Pulmonary embolism-diagnostic imaging

Disciplines

Cardiology | Other Nursing

Comments

Nurses Week Poster 2021

Contemporary Treatment Options for Pulmonary Embolism

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