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Research Articles Supplement 3 · 2014 · pp. 32–37 · Issue page

HYPOCAPNIA AS TRIGGER FOR THE DIAGNOSTIC PROTOCOL IN PULMONARY EMBOLISM

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Roxana CHELER1
AD
Adriana BIDICĂ2
SI
Siegfried ALBU3
1 MD, Emergency Unit, Emergency Universitary Clinical Hospital, Bucharest
2 MD, Emergency Unit, Emergency Universitary Clinical Hospital, Bucharest
3 MD, Emergency Unit, Emergency Universitary Clinical Hospital, Bucharest
Corresponding author: [email protected]
Accepted 27 March 2026
Available Online 15 December 2014
Abstract
THE ARTICLE ANALYZES THE CASES OF PULMONARY EMBOLISM PRESENTED IN THE EMERGENCY UNIT OF THE EMERGENC Y UNIVERSITARY CLINI CAL HOSPITAL IN THE PERIOD JANUARY – DECEMBER 2014 AND EM PHASIZES THE IMPORTA NCE OF HYPO CAPNIA AS A TRIGGER FOR THE INITIATION OF THE DI AGNOSTIC PROTOCOL FO R PULMONARY EMBOLISM . IT CORRELATES CLINICAL, LABORATORY, AND IMAGISTIC DATA FROM 79 PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH PULMONARY EMBOLISM IN THIS TIM E PERIOD. THE PRESEN CE OF HYPOCAPNIA IN THE MAJOR ITY OF THE PATIENTS IS ASCERTAI NED, WITH THE RECOMM ANDATION FOR EVALUATING ITS UTILITY IN T HE DIAGNOSIS OF PULMONARY EMBOLISM.
Keywords
PULMONARY EMBOLISM HYPOCAPNIA DYSPNEA ARTERIAL BLOOD GAS
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