[Treatment of the first episode of pulmonary embolism in the hospital. Anticoagulants, anti-platelet aggregation drugs and thrombolysis stimulants].
The treatment of the first pulmonary embolic accident in Hospital consist in the administration of anticoagulants. Heparin will be first used intravenously or subcutaneously during 10 to 12 days and will be followed by oral anticoagulants (VKA) during 3 to 12 months. These treatments must be controlled following national or international standardized technics and can be associated with antiplatelet drugs or thrombolytic activators. The most important and frequent complications observed are haemorrhages. They are consecutive to a non conformed administration of the drugs or overdosage bound to a non correct control or drugs interferences or to a misappreciated counterindication. They will be corrected in most of the cases by a simple anticoagulant dosage reduction and exceptionally by the interruption of the therapy with administration of antidotes and plasma substitutes. Other complications are extremely rare and bound to the nature of the drugs used.