Stronger Together: How One Colorado Springs Hospital Is Uniting Regional Emergency Care
UCHealth Memorial Hospital is Using Pulsara to Facilitate Feedback, Education, and Better Outcomes Across Organizations What if the future of...
James Woodson, MD
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Feb 22, 2018
Sometimes, PE is the forgotten Time Sensitive Emergency - until you are faced with "that patient" an hour before the end of your shift.
“...a clinical assessment protocol proved to be as effective as blood testing and CT imaging in the emergency department setting for ruling out pulmonary embolism in very low-risk patients.”
Investigators found that use of the pulmonary embolism rule-out criteria (PERC) was linked to “a lower initial PE diagnosis, along with an 8% decrease in unnecessary CT scanning and a median 40-minute decrease in ED stay, compared with usual care.”
UCHealth Memorial Hospital is Using Pulsara to Facilitate Feedback, Education, and Better Outcomes Across Organizations What if the future of...
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