[Solved]: What is a pulmonary embolism

What is a pulmonary embolism? Why is a saddle pulmonary embolism often fatal? Discuss the mechanism of the saddle pulmonary embolism. Nurses have first hand accounts of seeing a patient that is experiencing a fatal pulmonary embolism: ‘The patient was fine, then they expressed something is really wrong, and that’s it – they were gone’. **Note: not all pulmonary emboli are fatal. People can shower them and exhibit less extreme symptoms as above. It all depends on the underlying lung function of a particular patient