LONG BEACH, California — A small fraction of patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) who are eligible for advanced therapies are actually getting them, reported investigators who conducted a big data analysis. “Advanced PE therapy seems to be vulnerable to disparate use, and perhaps underuse,” Sahil Parikh, MD, a cardiovascular interventionalist at the Columbia University Medical...
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Could EKGs help doctors use AI to detect pulmonary embolisms?
by The Mount Sinai Hospital In a pilot study, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai showed that AI algorithms that rely on electrocardiogram and electronica health records may one day help doctors screen for pulmonary embolisms. Credit: Gicksberg and Nadkarni labs, Mount Sinai, N.Y., N.Y. Pulmonary embolisms are dangerous, lung-clogging blot clots....