Pulmonary Embolism: Towards a Unified Clinical Framework
A cross-speciality dialogue on PE management — examining risk stratification, classification systems, and the evolving role of interventional strategies in South Africa.
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About This Webinar
Pulmonary embolism is a high-risk, time-sensitive condition that requires rapid diagnosis and coordinated clinical decision-making across the acute care pathway. In practice, this involves complex, real-time decisions spanning initial assessment, imaging, haemodynamic instability, and urgent treatment selection.
It represents a true test case for modern multidisciplinary care, where emergency medicine, cardiology, pulmonology, critical care and interventional radiology must align on consistent approaches to patient assessment, risk stratification, and management.
This session brings together South Africa’s leading voices across these specialities to develop a shared, practical approach to contemporary PE management. From early risk stratification and diagnostic classification through to treatment selection and the evolving role of multidisciplinary PERT pathways and interventional strategies, the panel focuses on the clinical decisions that matter most in practice — including patient stratification, timely escalation, and interpretation of emerging evidence within the South African context.
Delivered as an interactive, case-based panel discussion, this session moves beyond guidelines and theory into real-world clinical decision-making — grounded in the realities of care in the emergency unit, inpatient setting, and outpatient clinic where pulmonary embolism is first encountered.
This session is now available to watch on demand. Originally broadcast as a live interactive panel on 12 May 2026, the recording captures the full multidisciplinary dialogue — designed to generate the kind of cross-speciality conversation that changes practice not just in the interventional suite, but in emergency departments, pulmonology clinics and general medical wards across the country.
- Define the current risk stratification framework for acute PE and understand where IR intervention is indicated versus systemic thrombolysis or anticoagulation alone
- Review the evidence for catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) and aspiration thrombectomy in intermediate and high-risk PE
- Understand the practical requirements for establishing a PE response team (PERT) model in a South African hospital context
- Identify the key handoff points between emergency medicine, pulmonology and IR — and how to optimise referral pathways
- Examine post-intervention monitoring, anticoagulation protocols and the prevention of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH)
Meet the Expert Panel
Four specialists, four disciplines — one shared goal of advancing how South Africa responds to pulmonary embolism. Click any card to read the full biography.
