• Mateo Porres-Aguilar, Victor F Tapson, Belinda N Rivera-Lebron, Parth M Rali, David Jiménez, Mateo Porres-Muñoz, Sarah Barraza, Oscar C Muñoz, and Debabrata Mukherjee.
• Internal Medicine and Hospital Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso Paul L Foster School of Medicine, El Paso, Texas, USA mporres1980@gmail.com.
• J. Investig. Med. 2021 Aug 1; 69 (6): 1153-1155.

AbstractVenous thromboembolism associated with COVID-19, particularly acute pulmonary embolism, may represent a challenging and complex clinical scenario. The benefits of having a multidisciplinary pulmonary embolism response team (PERT) can be important during such a pandemic. The aim of PERT in the care of such patients is to provide fast, appropriate, multidisciplinary, team-based approach, with the common goal to tailor the best therapeutic decision making, prioritizing always optimal patient care, especially given lack of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in the setting of COVID-19, which potentially confers a significant prothrombotic state. Herein, we would like to briefly emphasize the importance and potential critical role of PERT in the care of patients in which these two devastating illnesses are present together.© American Federation for Medical Research 2021. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.

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