Quality of Post-Discharge Follow-Up in Patients Admitted to TJUH with Intermediate High Risk Pulmonary Embolism

Presenter Information

D. Kramer, Thomas Jefferson University
P. Kirupaharan, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
M. Flamenbaum, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
M. Scharf, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow

Start Date

5-27-2021 9:00 AM

End Date

5-27-2021 5:00 PM

Description

• Our institution has developed a multidisciplinary pulmonary embolism response team (PERT) to help in the management of patients with intermediate high risk pulmonary embolism
• While the PERT focus is on acute inpatient management, it is important that PERT patients have close follow-up to monitor for known future complications including thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) and chronic pulmonary embolism syndrome
• CTEPH, in particular, is a potentially treatable disease with significant morbidity if left untreated
• Therefore, an underappreciated and important aspect of the PERT team should be the coordinated follow-up and long term care of these patients
• We wanted to better understand how consistently our patients with intermediate high risk PE had pulmonary and/or vascular medicine (JATS) outpatient follow-up with repeat TTE performed at 3 months

Keywords

PERT, Pulmonary Embolism, Outpatient

Comments

Presented at the 2021 House Staff Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Conference