Embolism – Top USMLE Diseases

the lecture covered and simplified a concept I didn't understand in class

Very good lecture. This allowed me to transfer my knowledge from the adult medicine to pediatrics regarding PE. However, I would have liked more info regarding the link with DVT and the clinical aspects of PE in children like clinical cases maybe and also a part about management. That being said I do understand it is not a typical pediatrics disease as it can be in adult medicine.

Thanks for very clear explanations and tricks from your medical career. These are the things, one can not find easily in the books.

hope the lesson becomes more concentrated to the idea,i leac=ve this lesson to search the net for better understanding.

Great lecture given by a competent speaker. But Dr Bord let us down a little by not elaborating on a clinical teaching point and pearl of wisdom that she may have wanted to talk about in more detail. She makes several references to the subtle presentations PE can take and gives two personal examples in her introduction. She also encourages us to follow our gut instinct if PE is on our minds as a likely diagnosis. I have learnt that if you go looking for text book presentations then you are on the wrong track, and to some extent this lecture encourages us to think text book. One of the most confounding and frustrating aspects of PE is that it can present in many ways - it's a mischievous demon. For me shortness of breath is the only reliable symptom. I would like a warning given to include PE in the differential diagnosis of any patient presenting with shortness of breath. However, despite my warning PERC and Wells are a good aid for getting you out of a misdiagnosis, but you have to be thinking PE to begin with. If, as clinical educators, we pushed this point in 101 then perhaps more PEs could be picked up earlier.