[Sudden death from acute pulmonary thromboembolism].
Acute pulmonary thromboembolism has been a common illness even in Japan and gets increased social as well as medical attention, especially during postoperative period. A current problem associated with mortality in this disease is a high incidence of sudden death. Effective ways of reducing unexpected death are to educate medical staffs about risk factors and triggers of this disease and to institute a comprehensive institutional policy of primary prophylaxis in patients at risk. Since it will be inappropriate to assume that the results of western studies are fully applicable to the clinical situation in Japan, future task in this disease is collection of Japanese own evidences.
The First Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Mie University.
Mashio
M
Nakamura
Takeshi
T
Nakano
D000208:Acute Disease; D003645:Death, Sudden; D006801:Humans; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*