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WC: Venous Ablation Workflow

Decision Nodes

Deep vein completed

 Enter patient above

Q: Deep vein completed?  Yes;No

Symptomatic?

  • Ulcer, pain, swelling
  • Neuropathy
Q: Is patient symptomatic?  Yes;No

Criteria met?

Criteria: 

  1. Reflux > 500 ms
  2. Compression for 4 weeks
  3. CEAP > 2
  4. HAST I (heaviness, achiness, swelling, throbbing, and itching)
  5. Walking program 
Q: Criteria met?  YES;NO

Compression + walking therapy

Q: Was patient enrolled in a walking program?  Yes;No
Q: Was patient given a prescription for compression stockings?  Yes;No

Optimize medical treatment

Schedule for venous ablation

Is patient cleared from superficial venous system?

Q: Pt cleared?  YES;NO

Start post treatment surveillance Set up all reminders

  • If patient is cleared, start the post treatment protocol (bring patient back for a 1 week follow up US and then a 1 month, then 3 month, 6 month and 1 year US for monitoring)

Superficial Venous US is:

  • 93970 for bilateral venous US
  • 93971 for unilateral venous US
  • I87.2 for ICD-10 code 

ATTENTION

  • To set up all reminders at once:
    • 1. Select the Assignee  *critical step* If you don't select clinician, task will not be assigned
    • 2. Select Anchor Date: procedure/surgery date (Day 0), from which tasks due dates are calculated
    • 3. Click "Create and Assign All Tasks"
  • OR to set up reminders one by one, proceed to the next nodes: "Anchor Date" does not apply if tasks are assigned individually
Q: 2. Set up all reminders simultaneously  

Re-evaluate superfical venous system

Set up for 1 week US follow up

Q: 1 week follow up  
Q: If 1w follow up not completed, please state why  Patient not reachable;Patient rescheduled for later date;Patient declined;Social or economical barriers to attendance;Other