Key result
Pulmonary Embolism Response Teams may standardize care, reduce time to treatment, and decrease hospital length of stay, although robust evidence demonstrating improved survival is currently lacking.
Why the study?
Constantly evolving therapeutic options and limited randomized controlled trial data challenge physicians caring for pulmonary embolism, prompting the adoption of pulmonary embolism response teams to guide individual management.
Does the implementation of a Pulmonary Embolism Response Team improve clinical outcomes and resource utilization in patients with acute pulmonary embolism?
Does the implementation of a Pulmonary Embolism Response Team improve clinical outcomes and resource utilization in patients with acute pulmonary embolism?
While Pulmonary Embolism Response Teams are a promising multidisciplinary approach to standardizing the complex management of PE, their definitive impact on clinical outcomes still requires validation through rigorous prospective studies.
PERTs may streamline acute PE care metrics; leaves open survival benefit, requiring prospective RCTs before routine adoption.
Pulmonary embolism (PE) continues to represent a significant health care burden and its incidence is steadily increasing worldwide. Constantly evolving therapeutic options and the rarity of randomized controlled trial data to drive clinical guidelines impose challenges on physicians caring for patients with PE. Recently, PE response teams have been developed and recommended to help address these issues by facilitating a consensus among local experts while advocating the management of acute PE according to each individual patient profile. In this review, we focus on the clinical challenges supporting the need for a PE response team, report the current evidence for their implementation, assess their impact on PE management and outcomes, and address unanswered questions and future directions.
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Bejjani et al. (2022) conducted a review in Pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary Embolism Response Teams was evaluated. Pulmonary Embolism Response Teams may standardize care, reduce time to treatment, and decrease hospital length of stay, although robust evidence demonstrating improved survival is currently lacking.
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