CHEST Recommendations Subsegmental PE

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The wiki has been updated with the recommendations for PE from a new CHEST guideline now that offers the option based on low quality (2C) evidence for clinical surveillance rather than anticoagulation for sub-segmental pulmonary embolism.  This excludes patients with proximal DVTs and those at risk for recurrent VTE (cancer patients, recent surgery, recurrent DVTs, decreased mobility, or hospitalization)

 

 

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