What to do about subsegmental pulmonary embolism?

Overdiagnosis is a huge problem in emergency medicine. We know that we are over-diagnosing pulmonary embolism (PE), as the rate of diagnosis has dramatically increased over the decades, but the morbidity and mortality from the disease has remained unchanged. (In other words, although these patients might have a pulmonary embolism, they would have never been … Continue reading What to do about subsegmental pulmonary embolism?