II. Indications
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Pulmonary Embolism evaluation with D-Dimer
- YEARS Score is used to modify the D-Dimer cut-off (0.5 to 1.0)
III. Criteria: Assign one point for each of three positive criteria
- Clinical evidence of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
- Hemoptysis
- Pulmonary Embolism most likely cause on differential diagnosis
IV. Interpretation
V. Efficacy
- Safely and significantly reduces the use of CT Pulmonary Angiography
VI. References
- Arora and Menchine in Herbert (2017) EM:Rap 17(12):20-1