• Josanna Rodriguez-Lopez and Richard Channick.
• Pulmonary Hypertension and Thromboendarterectomy Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Semin Respir Crit Care Med. 2017 Feb 1; 38 (1): 51-55.

AbstractTreatment of patients with intermediate- and high-risk pulmonary embolism (PE) is a controversial area. Many therapeutic options exist, and deciding on appropriate treatment can be difficult. In addition, multiple specialties are often involved in the care of PE patients. To better organize the response to serious PE patients, several hospitals and academic centers across the United States, spearheaded by Massachusetts General Hospital, have created pulmonary embolism response teams (PERTs). The goal of a PERT is to have a single multidisciplinary team of experts in thromboembolic disease, who can respond rapidly to patients with acute PE, and offer consultation with the full spectrum of therapeutic options. PERT teams were modeled after rapid response teams and are meant to generate a prompt, patient-specific plan for patients with PE without having to consult multiple individual specialists.Thieme Medical Publishers 333 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001, USA.

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