Practice Guideline Track on Acute Pulmonary Embolism

Guidelines into Practice

Topic(s):

Clinical

Pulmonary Embolism

Acute Cardiac Care

Pulmonary Circulation

Valvular, Myocardial, Pericardial, Pulmonary, Congenital Heart Disease

Pulmonary Hypertension

Venous Thromboembolism

Pulmonary Circulation, Pulmonary Embolism, Right Heart Failure

Webinars on this topic

2016 ESC webinar "Multidisciplinary Heart Team Discussion : how to manage a patient with dyspnea" Watch the recording.

2015 ESC webinar on "Diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas in patients with acute pulmonary embolism: What is new in the 2014 ESC Guidelines?" Watch the recording.

2015 ESC webinar on "Acute Pulmonary Embolism" Watch the recording.

Update - ESC Congress 2015 sessions

Topics in focus

Session Title	Slides	Webcast
Optimal management of pulmonary embolism
Does this patient have a pulmonary embolism?
Does this patient have a pulmonary embolism? Panel discussion and questions from the audience.
A patient with recurrent pulmonary embolism.
A patient with recurrent pulmonary embolism - Panel discussion and questions from the audience.
Systems of care: ideal management of pulmonary embolism - From emergency room to discharge - State of the art lecture.
Acute pulmonary embolism - When Guidelines do not help
Subsegmental pulmonary embolism.
Deep venous thrombosis in patients with pulmonary embolism.
Pulmonary embolism in pregnancy.
Indefinite anticoagulation: who are the candidates?
Acute pulmonary embolism: persisting and new controversies
Echocardiography and biomarker testing are mandatory in normotensive patients. PRO.
Echocardiography and biomarker testing are mandatory in normotensive patients. CONTRA.
Echocardiography and biomarker testing are mandatory in normotensive patients - CONCLUSION
Acute pulmonary embolism: persisting and new controversies
New oral anticoagulants are the new standard of care. CONTRA.
New oral anticoagulants are the new standard of care - CONCLUSION
Risk stratification in pulmonary embolism and in pulmonary hypertension
BNP testing performed after triaging patients with acute PE by standard Hestia decision rule is not needed - a randomised trial
Effectiveness of a clinical score, cardiac troponin, and echocardiography testing algorithm for risk stratification of normotensive patients with acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism
Risk stratification in pulmonary embolism and in pulmonary hypertension - rapid fire abstracts
Prognostic impact of cardiovascular risk in pulmonary embolism.
Patient selection in outpatient and short-stay treatment in pulmonary embolism - comparison of different criteria (PESI, sPESI, Hestia and RVD on CT) in relation to ESC 2014 guidelines
Comparisson of rivaroxaban and vitamin K antagonists anticoagulant therapy after thrombolysis in patients with intermediate and high risk pulmonary embolism
Identification of normotensive patients with pulmonary embolism at high risk of adverse clinical outcome: comparison of two clinical scores

ESC Congress 2014 Sessions

Part 1 - Overview of the ESC Guidelines on Pulmonary Embolism

Topic	Session	Slides	Webcast
Pumonary embolism	Pulmonary embolism.
	Pulmonary embolism.
	Pulmonary embolism: what do the Guidelines say.
ESC Guidelines on pulmonary embolism. What is new? What has changed?	Diagnostic approach: prediction rules, imaging procedures and algorithms.
	Treatment modalities: anticoagulation, thrombolysis, interventions.
	Risk-adjusted therapeutic strategies.

Part 2 - Topics in Focus

Topic	Session	Slides	Webcast
Acute Pulmonary Embolism	New interventional and surgical procedures in pulmonary vascular diseases
The 2014 ESC Guidelines for pulmonary embolism: hot topics	A patient with dyspnoea and dizziness.
	Dyspnoea and dizziness: what do the Guidelines say.
	Chest pain, dyspnoea and positive biomarkers: what do the Guidelines say.
	A pregnant woman with acute dyspnoea.
	Pregnancy and acute dyspnoea: what do the Guidelines say.
Randomised controlled trials and meta-analyses in pulmonary vascular disease	Thrombolysis for intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism: 6-month follow-up of the PEITHO trial
Poster session 1: New aspects in acute pulmonary embolism	Clinical presentation and outcome in patients with pulmonary embolism with and without cancer
New insights in acute pulmonary embolism	Meta-analysis of impending paradoxical embolism
	Optimized high sensitive troponin T cut-off values for risk stratification of normotensive patients with pulmonary embolism
	Performance of five different bleeding-prediction scores in patients with acute pulmonary embolism
	Use of a diagnostic computerized clinical decision support and outcomes of suspected pulmonary embolism
Poster session 2: Acute pulmonary embolism and basic science in pulmonary arterial hypertension	Local fibrinolysis, rotational thrombus fragmentation and thrombus aspiration in patients with massive pulmonary embolism
Chronic pulmonary hypertension	External validation of a simple non-invasive algorithm to rule out chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after acute pulmonary embolism
Imaging in myocardial disease and thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension	Either balloon pulmonary angioplasty or surgical pulmonary endarterectomy can cover most of patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension as treatment option
New interventional and surgical procedures in pulmonary vascular diseases	Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: the role of percutaneous pulmonary angioplasty.
Chronic pulmonary hypertension	What happens after acute PE? Insights into the transition to CTEPH.

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