• Brit J Hosp Med · Sep 2021

    Should patients with submassive pulmonary embolism be thrombolysed?

    • Toby Hoskins.
    • Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, Peterborough City Hospital, Peterborough, UK.
    • Brit J Hosp Med. 2021 Sep 2; 82 (9): 1-2.

    AbstractThrombolysis can be used to break down a pulmonary embolism more rapidly than standard anticoagulation. Its use has been confined to patients with massive pulmonary embolism and haemodynamic collapse, with disagreement over its role in submassive pulmonary embolism because of the risk of catastrophic bleeding.

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