<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Times New Roman \(Body CS\)";
panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Cavolini;
panose-1:3 0 5 2 4 3 2 2 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro";
panose-1:2 11 5 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
span.EmailStyle19
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;
font-weight:normal;
font-style:normal;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style>
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Good Morning All,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Epic Team is looking feedback from all and complete this.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">EPIC team:-“</span><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black">We just need to know what the group thinks is best. The three fields in question are
at the top of the PERT form”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><img width="335" height="144" style="width:3.4895in;height:1.5in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D73EC7.9D19D990"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black">Would we like to remove one or all of these questions, or keep them and change the verbiage? Once this is confirmed, we should be able to move forward</span></i><i><span style="font-family:Cavolini;color:#4472C4">.</span></i><i><span style="font-family:Cavolini;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">This was discussed in one of the meetings:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">CTA thorax based:-
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">LV/RV Ratio =
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Clot Burden =
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Thank you for time and attention.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">HSG<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#5B9BD5">Harvir Singh Gambhir MD, FACP, CPL, CPHQ<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Associate Vice Chair for Quality Improvement & Patient Safety, Department of Medicine,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Quality Officer, Division of Hospital Medicine,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Assistant Professor & Hospitalist,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">SUNY Upstate Medical University,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">750 E Adams Street,
<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Syracuse, NY 13210.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">pert <pert-bounces@lists.upstate.edu> on behalf of Christopher T. Tanski <TanskiC@upstate.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, April 26, 2021 at 3:03 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>pert@lists.upstate.edu <pert@lists.upstate.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[pert] Updates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hi-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The PERT committee met last week and approved finalized versions of the policy and procedure, which I have attached. These have now been submitted to the following groups/councils/committees for
approval: medicine shared governance, surgery shared governance, procedural shared governance, ICU governance, critical care shared governance, resuscitation and legal. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">In addition, our membership in the PERT Consortium is proceeding. I will need to submit a project request to our IRB for approval to send anonymous data to the registry. They may or may not require
some sort of consent document.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Lastly, the hospital is moving toward high sensitivity (fifth generation) troponin T as opposed to "conventional" troponin. We will need to see how/if that makes a difference in how we use troponin
in the assessment of PE burden.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Chris<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>