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Abstract
Data as presented in the original studies was collected from various resources as from various sources including journals as Emergency Medicine Journal (EMJ), European Journal of Emergency Medicine, Western Journal of Emergency Medicine (WestJEM), LANCET, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), The آNew England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Thorax, The British Thoracic Association, Textbooks as Current Emergency Medicine, Oxford Emergency Medicine, First Aid for the Emergency Medicine Board, and Medical libraries as Suez Canal University Hospital, Kasr El Ainy Hospital And Ain Shams University to Review the updates of the guidelines in the management of pulmonary embolism and to explore the most recent general and emergency lines of treatment of pulmonary embolism cases and recognize the impact of these measures on the outcome prognosis
In this review, we found that the diagnostic algorithm in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism in a patient without hypotension or shock include evaluation of the clinical probability score, the use of D-dimer assay and multidetector CT, while in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism with hypotension or shock, multidetector CT is done immediately if available, if not echocardiography should be used.(29)