Hospital’s Pulmonary Embolism Response Team at the ready

Hospital’s Pulmonary Embolism Response Team at the ready

Pulmonary embolism is a widespread and often fatal affliction. As many as 600,000 cases occur in the United States annually and up to 30 percent of the time the patient dies within one month. The high mortality rate is due in part to the lack of a standardized approach to treating PE. To address this problem, Cleveland Clinic has assembled a multidisciplinary Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT) consisting of a group of caregivers representin…