Integrating pulmonary embolism response teams: perspectives and outcomes from a European and German survey…

StudyThrombosis journal· Aug 2026

Integrating pulmonary embolism response teams: perspectives and outcomes from a European and German survey analysis.

Lukas Hobohm, Karsten Stannek, Karsten Keller … Ingo Ahrens

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Only 52.3% of high-volume German centers have implemented a pulmonary embolism response team.

Integrating pulmonary embolism response teams: perspectives and outcomes from a European and German survey analysis.

Lukas Hobohm … Ingo Ahrens

Thrombosis journal · Aug 2026

Background

In recent years, establishing multidisciplinary pulmonary embolism response teams (PERTs/EXPERT-PE) has become more prevalent.

Results

Just over half of eligible German hospitals had a pulmonary embolism response team, versus 80.8% in Europe.

German centers

52.3%

European reference cen

80.8%

More results

Results were compared with those of European PE reference centers.

Overall, 65 hospitals participated at this German survey with most PERTs available at university hospitals (63%), especially in West (63%) and Southern (62%).

More results

In 86% cases, PERT is led by Cardiology, followed by Angiology (6.9%), Pulmonology (4.6%), and Critical Care Medicine (2.3%).

Regarding advanced treatment the majority of hospitals performed catheter-directed thrombolysis (72.2%) and catheter-based thrombectomy/aspiration (74.1%).

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Conclusion

This emphasizes the pressing need for awareness campaigns for acute and chronic PE.

Integrating pulmonary embolism response teams: perspectives and outcomes from a European and German survey analysis.

Integrating pulmonary embolism response teams: perspectives and outcomes from a European and German survey analysis.

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