Multidisciplinary Approaches to Improve Pulmonary Embolism (PE) Management - Latest Clinical Data
This insightful video series has been designed to enhance your understanding of the latest developments in pulmonary embolism (PE) management.
Moderated by Prof Felix Mahfoud (University Hospital Basel, CH), the faculty explore current guidelines with a critical eye, particularly where gaps may exist, such as in managing intermediate-risk patients. Featuring findings from the PEERLESS study, this series introduces a practical framework for identifying candidates for intervention. The webinar also spotlights on best practices in uniting referring physicians with treaters to improve patient outcomes.
Watch the full series now to gain insights into integrating the PEERLESS data into daily practice and how to offer appropriate interventional options to your patients.
The live version of this webinar was accredited. For the on-demand CME-accredited course, please click the link below:
Learning Objectives
- Enhance clinician understanding of current PE management
- Promote the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) approach in PE management
- Familiarise clinicians with the latest data from the PEERLESS study
Target Audience
- Angiologists
- Cardiologists
- Hematologists
- Intensivists (ICU and Emergency Department)
- Interventional Cardiologists
- Interventional Radiologists
- Oncologists
- Pulmonologists
More from this programme
Part 1
Introduction
Prof Felix Mahfoud gives a brief welcome, outlining the programme agenda and prompting the live audience to share their current access to mechanical thrombectomy and catheter directed devices for PE management.
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Part 2
Disrupting the Status Quo in PE Care
In this session, Prof Ingo Ahrens discusses the unmet needs in PE care and current risk stratifications, focusing on the gaps for intermediate-high risk patients and the need for structured assessment and rigorous scientific assessment of new reperfusion therapies.
Part 3
Informed Decisions: Expanding Options for PE Patients
This session explores the current challenges faced in the ICU, and how new therapies could overcome these. Prof Thomas Cuisset discusses the current guidelines and consensus statements, and utilises a patient case study to illustrate and discuss the need for teamwork, robust clinical evidence and optimised risk stratification in PE care.
Part 4
Discussion: Risk Stratification and Decision Making
The faculty discuss risk stratification and decision making in PE management.
Part 5
Review of the PE Clinical Trial Landscape
The key points of this session by Dr Stefan Stortecky include the history and timeline of randomised evidence in the PE clinical trial landscape, examining the rational and need for these studies, before discussing primary outcomes from PEERLESS, the first randomised clinical trial evaluating mechanical thrombectomy vs catheter directed thrombolysis.
Part 6
Clinical Trial Update: Acute Pulmonary Embolism
In this session, Dr Jay Giri offers insights into the future landscape of care for PE patients.
Part 7
Discussion: Navigating the Clinical Evidence
The faculty engage in an interactive discussion on navigating the clinical evidence.
Part 8
Closing Remarks
Prof Felix Mahfoud concludes the webinar with key reflections and a final audience poll to assess potential changes in their PE management practices.
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Faculty Biographies
Felix Mahfoud
Professor of Cardiology and Chairman of the Department of Cardiology
Prof Felix Mahfoud is a Professor of Cardiology at the University of Basel and the Chairman of the Department of Cardiology at University Hospital Basel, Switzerland. He also holds a position as Visiting Professor at Harvard-MIT, Biomedical Engineering in Boston, MA.
Prof Mahfoud is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiology, intensive care medicine, emergency medicine and hypertension. He is Deputy Editor of the European Journal of Heart Failure and is a Councillor on the Board of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) for 2024-2026. Additionally, he chairs both the ESC Communication Committee and the Scientific Documents Committee of the EAPCI for the 2024-2026 term.
He has published more than 500 publications in peer-reviewed journals and contributed as a wiring committee member to the 2019 ESC Guidelines for the…
Ingo Ahrens
Professor in Medicine
Prof Ingo Ahrens is Professor in Medicine and Head Department of Cardiology and Medical Intensive Care Augustinerinnen Hospital Cologne, DE.
Thomas Cuisset
Interventional Cardiologist
Prof Thomas Cuisset is interventional cardiologist and head of the cathlab at the Cardiology Unit at La Timone Hospital in Marseille, FR. Prof Cuisset is course director of EuroPCR, fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and an active member of the ESC Working Group on Thrombosis.
Stefan Stortecky
Interventional Cardiologist
Dr Stefan Stortecky is an interventional cardiologist and associate professor of cardiology at Bern University Hospital, CH.
Jay Giri
Director of Peripheral Intervention
Dr Jay Giri is an Interventional Cardiologist, the Director of Peripheral Intervention at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Cardiovascular Catheterization Laboratory at the Corporal Michael C. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia, and the Associate Director of the Penn Cardiovascular Outcomes, Quality & Evaluative Research Center.