TY - JOUR T1 - Impact and role of pulmonary embolism response teams in venous thromboembolism associated with COVID-19 JF - Journal of Investigative Medicine JO - J Investig Med SP - 1153 LP - 1155 DO - 10.1136/jim-2021-001856 VL - 69 IS - 6 AU - Mateo Porres-Aguilar AU - Victor F Tapson AU - Belinda N Rivera-Lebron AU - Parth M Rali AU - David Jiménez AU - Mateo Porres-Muñoz AU - Sarah Barraza AU - Oscar C Muñoz AU - Debabrata Mukherjee Y1 - 2021/08/01 UR - http://hw-f5-jim.highwire.org/content/69/6/1153.abstract N2 - Venous thromboembolism associated with COVID-19, particularly acute pulmonary embolism, may represent a challenging and complex clinical scenario. The benefits of having a multidisciplinary pulmonary embolism response team (PERT) can be important during such a pandemic. The aim of PERT in the care of such patients is to provide fast, appropriate, multidisciplinary, team-based approach, with the common goal to tailor the best therapeutic decision making, prioritizing always optimal patient care, especially given lack of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in the setting of COVID-19, which potentially confers a significant prothrombotic state. Herein, we would like to briefly emphasize the importance and potential critical role of PERT in the care of patients in which these two devastating illnesses are present together. ER -