For many conditions, I already do this. I’m not big on doing a lot of tests. I completely appreciate, however, that many emergency physicians feel uncomfortable sending people home without flipping over a few more stones. So, here we are with a slim allowable margin of error to diagnose a condition that is easy to miss, with tests that may do more harm than good.
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ACEP News: Vol 30 – No 08 – August 2011On the bright side, at least PE is not contagious.
I can only hope that we will look back on these days 5 or 10 years from now and talk about the bad old days when we did not have an easy way to find a pulmonary embolus.
Be happy.
Dr. Baehren lives in Ottawa Hills, Ohio. He practices emergency medicine and is an assistant professor at the University of Toledo (Ohio) Medical Center. Your feedback is welcome at David.Baehren@utoledo.edu.
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