A new study suggests that many patients with pulmonary embolism who present as hemodynamically stable may be in subclinical shock due to low cardiac index.
Moreover, mechanical thrombectomy may confer an immediate improvement in cardiac index for these patients, researchers reported at the Society of Critical Care Medicine Congress.
“There are certain limitations in the risk stratification scores that are available to us,” Bushra Mina, MD, FCCM, with the Lenox Hill PERT Team at Lenox Hill Hospital/Northwell Health, said during a presentation. “Most [patients with PE] will