Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Top ten issues in hospital medicine for 2007, issue 8: new guidelines and evidence for diagnosis and treatment of venous thromboembolism

This year saw the publication of new guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of venous thromboembolism which can be accessed as free full text, which I linked in a post here.

Just out a week or two ago was this randomized trial comparing CT with V/Q scanning for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. The results were equivalent. Neither method emerged as the clear diagnostic modality of choice. This was consistent with previous evidence.

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