Pulmonary embolism in children has been acknowledged to be an issue in clinical care but was thought to be rare. Now new research published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care ...

This learning unit on venous thromboembolism prevention will support nurses in helping hospitalised patients minimise their ...

A paradoxical embolism happens when an embolus – typically a blood clot – travels from the right side of the heart to the left without going through the lungs, explains Omar Lattouf ...

CONSIDERABLE progress has been made in recent years in the understanding of thromboembolic disease and also in the ability to diagnose acute pulmonary embolism. Radiologists have learned to ...

What Is a Pulmonary Embolism? A pulmonary embolism (PE) happens when a blood clot suddenly blocks an artery that supplies blood to your lungs. Pulmonary embolism happens when a blood clot travels ...

An air embolism, or gas embolism, occurs when one or more gas bubbles enter a vein or artery. This can block the passage of blood, and it can be life threatening. Treatment can depend on the cause.

“The initial management can be done in the primary care setting,” said Sai Sunkara, MD, a pulmonologist with UI Health in ...

Patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) who were treated with mechanical thrombectomy (MT) within 12 hours of hospital ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is more common in children than previously thought, according to a study presented at the American ...

He subsequently revealed to Fox 11 Los Angeles that the cause of death was amniotic fluid embolism (AFE), a rare and often fatal complication that is one of the leading causes of death during and ...

Matthew later told Fox News 11 that his wife suffered cardiac arrest from amniotic fluid embolism just minutes after giving birth to the couple’s son, Crew, via C-section. “She was able to see ...