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Monday 17 December 2012

Pulmonary embolism in mechanically ventilated patients requiring computed tomography

Pulmonary embolism in mechanically ventilated patients requiring computed tomography: Prevalence, risk factors and outcome.  Critical care medicine, Dec. 2012, Vol. 40(12), p.3202-08.

Minet, C., et al.

http://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Abstract/2012/12000/Pulmonary_embolism_in_mechanically_ventilated.12.aspx

In mechanically ventilated patients who needed a computed tomography, pulmonary embolism was more common than expected. Patients diagnosed with pulmonary embolism were all treated with therapeutic anticoagulation, and their intensive care unit or hospital mortality was not impacted by the pulmonary embolism occurrence. 

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