As part of this year’s coverage of the CHEST Annual Conference in Boston, Medscape and the American Journal of Managed Care highlighted research presented by Krunal H. Patel, MD, a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellow at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, that found earlier intervention of mechanical thrombectomy in acute pulmonary embolism could significantly improve patient outcomes, hinting at the potential for new guidelines in the treatment of PE.