This information is concise and straight to what is needed to know, about PE! You are amazing, btw I was scared when I saw the new nurse I thought I was not gonna see you any more, but she does an amazing job as well. Great team🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. Thanks again 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Hi Cathy can you include under respiratory PE pulmonary edema, PE pulmonary effusion. Thank you for questions at the end of each topic. Have respiratory exams next week,this just hits important points in a nutshell.
First of all, thank you for your videos! Regarding Warfarin and anti-platetlets (Aspirine) . We do see clients that prescribed with both. In terms of NCLEX, is that a contraindication /teaching to avoid taking Aspirin with anti-coagulants? Thank you again!
Hello Nurse Parker you mention that the patient with P.E should avoid aspirin,yet aspirin is a anti platelet which reduces chances of clot formation,kindly clarify that for me?
When the patient is on a blood thinner (such as warfarin) for a PE, they have an increased risk of bleeding. If they were to take aspirin, that would further increase their risk of bleeding. Does that make sense? -Cathy
It can; patients can have constant chest pain, chest pain with inspiration, or in some cases no pain at all! That's why it's important to do a full clinical evaluation and not only look for one particular symptom!
Certainly; in most cases, if there's a clot there will be an elevated D-dimer, however not in all cases. The D-dimer should only be used as one component of the clinical workup!
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