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    POMPE-C Tool for Pulmonary Embolism Mortality

    Predicts mortality for cancer patients with PE.
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    In the setting of a patient with known cancer who has been diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism, the POMPE-C can be used to estimate their mortality.

    The POMPE-C Prediction Tool was risk stratifies patients diagnosed with pulmonary embolism and have active cancer.

    • The POMPE-C prediction tool predicts mortality directly (at 30 days), not a risk category of mortality.
    • Active cancer has been shown to be a risk factor for PE, but less so for cancer in remission.
    • The POMPE-C has not been validated for incidental PE (PE found on imaging but without symptoms), though a small sample was identified and found to be low-risk overall.
    • The POMPE-C may be more accurate in predicting outcome than the PESI Score in the setting of patients with active cancer.
    • The POMPE-C has not yet been validated for selecting patients for outpatient management (though there is potential for future research).
    • Risk stratification is a vital part of the evaluation of a patient diagnosed with PE.
    • Most risk-stratification tools use cancer as a prognostic indicator, but no risk stratification tool exists for those patients with known cancer.
    • Those patients that are determined to be low risk (score ≤5%) may warrant outpatient management (though this has not been validated).
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    Dr. Jeffrey Kline

    About the Creator

    Jeffrey Kline, MD, is a professor of emergency medicine and physiology and the vice chair of research at Indiana University. Among other research, he has conducted clinical studies using breath-based methods to diagnose and assess the severity of PE. He co-founded BreathQuant Medical Systems Inc to advance practical applications of 16 patents for medical devices. Dr. Kline has published over 50 manuscripts in the area of PE.

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