Pulmonary embolism: outpatient treatment and risk stratification

Abstract

The aims of this thesis were to investigate the efficacy and safety of outpatient treatment of patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) and to identify the best method for selection of PE patients for outpatient treatment. Therefore, we performed the Hestia study and compared the selection of patients with the Hestia criteria to other methods for risk stratification, for example the simplified Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index and the method described in the European Society of Cardiology guidelines.