Episode 148.0 – ACEP VTE Clinical Policy 2018
This episode reviews the highlights from the recent ACEP clinical policy on acute VTE management in the ED.
Show Notes
Take Home Points
- The PERC risk stratifies low risk PE patients (~10%) to a level low enough (1.9%) as to obviate the need for additional testing.
- Age-adjusted D-dimers are ready for use and it doesn’t matter if your assay uses FEU (cutoff 500) or DDU (cutoff 250). For FEU use an upper limit of 10 X age and for DDU use an upper limit of 5 X age.
- For now, subsegmental PEs should continue to routinely be anticoagulated even in the absence of a DVT. Keep an eye out for more research on this area.
- Although outpatient management of select PE patients (using sPESI or Hestia criteria) may be standard practice, the evidence wasn’t strong enough for ACEP to give it’s support
- Patients with DVT can be started on a NOAC and discharged from the ED
