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Emergency Care of Pulmonary Embolism and Episode 195
Tip This Week Pulmonary Embolism
Pulmonary Embolism is a sudden blockage in a lung artery. It is usually a result of a blood clot in the leg (DVT) that broke loose and traveled into the lungs via circulation.
About half the people who have pulmonary emb