Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism

Diagnostic Approach to the Patient with Suspected Pulmonary Embolism.- Clinical Probability and D-Dimer Testing.- Imaging of Acute Pulmonary Embolism.- The Search for Deep Vein Thrombosis.- Risk Stratification of Pulmonary Embolism.- Cardiac Biomarkers in the Diagnostic Workup of Pulmonary Embolism.- Importance of a Patent Foramen Ovale.- Contemporary Diagnostic Algorithm for the Hemodynamically Stable Patient With Suspected Pulmonary Embolism.- Contemporary Diagnostic Algorithm for the Hemodynamically Unstable Patient With Suspected Massive Pulmonary Embolism.- Treatment and Secondary Prophylaxis of Venous Thromboembolism.- Heparin Anticoagulation.- Thrombolysis.- Management of the Patient With Fulminant Pulmonary Embolism Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.- Surgical Pulmonary Embolectomy.- Interventional Approaches to the Treatment of Acute Massive Pulmonary Embolism.- Vitamin K Antagonists and Novel Oral Anticoagulant.- Specific Aspects.- Hereditary and Acquired Thrombophilia.- Venous Thromboembolism and Cancer.- Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnancy.- Venous Thromboembolism in the Era of Air Travel.- Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension.