Patient with a recent surgery who develops dyspnea, decreased localized breath sounds, and a leukocytosis most concerning for a hospital-acquired pneumonia, which should be worked-up with chest x-ray
Pulmonary angiography (pulmonary embolism): Tachycardia, signs of DVT, hemoptysis, etc.
sahusemaSurgery in past 4 weeks = 1.5
PE more likely than something else = ?? 0 i guess
This patient would likely still need a d-dimer to help rule PE out+
jurrutiaHow is the alternative diagnosis less likely than PE? I say she has 4.5 on Wells, but clearly I'm wrong+1
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