BTS Guideline for the outpatient management of pulmonary embolism
The new BTS Guideline for the initial outpatient management of pulmonary embolism has been published.
The new Guideline provides guidance on how to risk-stratify patients with suspected and confirmed pulmonary embolism and subsequently manage them in an outpatient or ambulatory care setting.
The full guideline is published as a supplement to the July 2018 issue of Thorax (available below). A summary of the recommendations is also available in BMJ Open Respiratory Research. Read the Thorax article online here