Clinical Review
The Missed Pulmonary Embolism
Fed Pract. 2004 June;21(6):14
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Domingo Gonzalez, MD, LTC, MC, USA, Emil P. Lesho, DO, LTC, MC, USA, and Louise Saullo, CRTT
LTC Gonzalez is the chief of the internal medicine service at Winn Army Community Hospital, Fort Stewart, GA. LTC Lesho is a first year infectious diseases fellow at the National Capital Consortium, Bethesda, MD and Washington, DC. Ms. Saullo is a respiratory therapist and a medical administrative assistant at the Greater Hazleton Health Alliance, Hazleton, PA.
Once this condition is suspected, diagnostic efforts must continue until it's confirmed or ruled out absolutely.