Sefulness of electrocardiographic and radiographic changes in the diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism

摘要

A 75-year-old woman with a history of hypertension experienced general malaise and weakness for 1 day. Rapidly progressive shortness of breath was noticed thereafter and an ambulance was called by her family. On the way to the hospital, a sudden loss of consciousness was noted, and car-diopulmonary resuscitation was performed by emergency medical technicians for cardiac arrest. At emergency department arrival, cardiopulmonary resuscitation was continued, and spontaneous circulation was gained 12min after onset of cardiopulmonary arrest. Physically, neither respiratory wheezes nor cardiac murmurs were heard.