{"id":151,"date":"2012-08-16T21:36:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T21:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drcrunch.wordpress.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2012-08-16T21:36:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T21:36:59","slug":"dont-dimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drcrunch.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/dont-dimer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dont Dimer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But the d-dimer is 64,954! It has to be a PE!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brit-thoracic.org.uk\/Portals\/0\/Guidelines\/Pulmonary%20Embolism\/Guidelines\/ddimerstatement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">BTS<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only a normal i.e. negative d-dimer is of\u00a0<em>any<\/em> clinical value. A positive value, no matter how positive, does not imply a significantly increase probability of a PE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But the d-dimer is 64,954! It has to be a PE!&#8221; To paraphrase the BTS: &#8220;Only a normal i.e. negative d-dimer is of\u00a0any clinical value. A positive value, no matter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,62,74,148,168],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blood-test","tag-d-dimer","tag-dvt","tag-new-doctor","tag-pe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9zRNY-2r","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcrunch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcrunch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcrunch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcrunch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcrunch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/drcrunch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcrunch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcrunch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcrunch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}