Encouraging Next Steps in Venous Disease Care

Encouraging Next Steps in Venous Disease Care is organized by Indiana University and would be held on Apr 29, 2016 at Hine Hall (IP), Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America. The targeted audience for this medical event basically for emergency medicine physicians, primary care physicians, wound care specialists, advanced care providers.

Course Objectives :

At the conclusion of this program and based on societal practice guidelines, participants should be able to:

Utilize a Caprini risk stratification to determine appropriate intensity of venous prophylaxis for hospitalized surgical patients and understand risk stratification and options for venous prophylaxis of hospitalized medical patients.
Recognize that for a clearly provoked first venous thromboembolic event (example: recent major orthopedic surgery), patients should receive anticoagulation for three months. For all other venous thromboembolic events, a thoughtful shared decision should be made with the patient to consider either continued full dose anticoagulation or low dose aspirin therapy.
Use clinical measures to discern those patients with pulmonary embolism who can be safely treated outpatient with systemic anticoagulation and those who require inpatient treatment. Patients with pulmonary embolism and findings of shock or right ventricular strain with large clot burden need consideration of thrombolytic therapy.
Recognize that active, healthy patients with iliofemoral and subclavian/axillary DVT are subject to increased long-term morbitity when treated with anticoagulation alone and should instead be considered for clot removal therapy.
Treat the signs and symptoms of chronic venous disease early to prevent progression and eliminate saphenous reflux to prevent recurrent ulceration in patients with superficial venous disease, and if iliofemoral venous occlusive disease is present in a patient with recurrent venous ulceration suggest iliofemoral venous stent placement.