Pulmonary Embolism response team or PERT Team

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Are any nurses involved in Pulmonary Embolism Response Teams (PERT Teams)? Can you tell me what you do, how they work, policies, procedures, etc. Experiences.

I have a nurse who is looking for information in an acute care setting.

Thank-you again for all your help,

Deweydecimal13501 (librarian to great nurses).

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Boy howdy, that's a new one on me. I would certainly hope that there wouldn't be as much need for such a dedicated team in most hospitals, at least as compared to the general RRT that can deal with MI, stroke, AND PE.

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PERT Consortium
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Thanks. Yes, its a very good site indeed. They will be working on protocols and guidelines, nothing out yet.

I was hoping for some first hand information to give my patron.. which is why I come to this site to get that type of information here. She relies on me to do that for her as honestly she is too busy on the floors. :) Anybody... working in a multidisciplinary group perhaps?

Deweydecimal13501

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Not sure about teams who respone immeditely, but we have 2 levels of response codes. The one level notifies people such as cardiology, radiology, cardiac surgery, cardiac OR call team, interventional vascular unit call team, and perfusion to report to the facility for possibility of surgical intervention, radiology intervention, ECMO, etc. The lower level notifies the physicians that a PE has been diagnosed but does not require them to physically respond to the facility. Obviously all of these people are in the building during normal working hours but the procedure for notification is the same regardless of time.

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Thank-you for your responses. I appreciate everyone who took the time to respond. :)

Deweydecimal13501 (librarian to great nurses)

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It seems to be getting complicated, having to have separate teams for stroke, PE, MI, etc. Is it so much better than having just a general rapid response team? I guess maybe, but it sure sounds complicated!

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It seems to be getting complicated, having to have separate teams for stroke, PE, MI, etc. Is it so much better than having just a general rapid response team? I guess maybe, but it sure sounds complicated!

Each one is called something different at my facility. Wouldn't it make sense to be able to alert the appropriate people at once without making those who aren't needed respond as well? Maybe my hospital is spoiled- there's a system that tracks who's on call for what, and those pagers are assigned to the page group- 1 page goes to all needed people.

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