These sessions will be helpful in expanding physician knowledge base and improving clinical confidence and effectiveness in treating patients with CLTI.
Funding for this activity is provided by a grant from CMSS aimed to promote diagnostic excellence across the field of medicine.
Before you watch the recordings, you are encouraged to take the roundtable pre-survey to evaluate if the guideline recommendations are easy to translate into daily clinical practice.
Once you have completed the recordings, you are encouraged to take the post-survey. This will help gauge what you have learned. If you are only going to watch one recording, please take the surveys before and after; if you are going to watch all of the recordings, take the pre-survey before you watch the first one and the post-survey after you watch the final one.
The focus of this webinar will be to review the patient PLAN algorithm based on the Global Vascular Guidelines in CLTI. The importance of staging to guide the course of treatment and potential alterations in the treatment plan will be reviewed. The use of the VQI, WIfI, and GLASS applications to facilitate evidence-based decision-making for CLTI patients will be reviewed.
Case presentations will illustrate how to practically use the PLAN approach in specific clinical scenarios.
Held in-person at VAM24, this session will focus on shared, patient-centered decision making to individualize treatment recommendations. The importance of staging and setting patients’ expectations to facilitate decision making for CLTI patients will be reviewed.
This recording also includes a live patient panel.
Overview
This session is based on the 2023 Society for Vascular Surgery, American Venous Forum, and American Vein and Lymphatic Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Varicose Veins of the Lower Extremities.
Pre- and Post-Course Surveys
Before you watch the recording, you are encouraged to take the roundtable pre-survey to evaluate if the guideline recommendations are easy to translate into daily clinical practice.
Once you have completed the recording, you are encouraged to take the post-survey. This will help gauge what you have learned.
Session Recording
This session will be helpful in expanding physician knowledge base and improving clinical confidence and effectiveness in treating patients with varicose veins. The session will address the latest guidelines in the diagnostic evaluation of patients with varicose veins, using duplex scanning. It will also cover adjuvant medical treatment with available nutritional supplements, compression therapy, open surgical and percutaneous endovenous therapies for lower extremity varicosities, including thermal and non-thermal ablations of the great, small and accessory saphenous veins. The treatment of thrombotic complications of venous interventions and superficial thrombophlebitis as well as concomitant or staged treatment of varicose tributaries with sclerotherapy or mini-phlebectomy will also be discussed.
The faculty will use case vignettes to design treatment strategies and demonstrate how to put the recommendations from the evidence-based clinical practice guidelines into practice.
Overview
This session is based on the 2022 Society for Vascular Surgery, American Venous Forum, and American Vein and Lymphatic Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Varicose Veins of the Lower Extremities.
Pre- and Post-Course Surveys
Before you watch the recording, you are encouraged to take the roundtable pre-survey to evaluate if the guideline recommendations are easy to translate into daily clinical practice.
Once you have completed the recording, you are encouraged to take the post-survey. This will help gauge what you have learned.
Session Recording
This session will be helpful in expanding physician knowledge base and improving clinical confidence and effectiveness in treating patients with varicose veins. The session will address diagnostic evaluation of patients with varicose veins, using duplex scanning to confirm pathologic superficial truncal reflux. The session will also cover compression therapy, open surgical and percutaneous endovenous therapies for lower extremity varicosities, including thermal and non-thermal ablations of the great, small and accessory saphenous veins. The treatment of perforating veins and the concomitant treatment of varicose tributaries with sclerotherapy or mini-phlebectomy will also be discussed.
Recommended Readings
The Society for Vascular Surgery offers several different types of clinical practice documents and tools to assist our members and the healthcare industry.
The Society's guidelines evaluate the evidence in the scientific literature, assess the likely benefits and harms of a particular treatment, and enable healthcare providers to select the best care for a unique patient based on his or her preferences. The Society develops clinical practice guidelines to aid its members and their patients in the decision-making process.
Translating Guidelines Into Clinical Practice
In the fall of 2022, expert moderators and panelists came together to host a series of interactive roundtables addressing how to incorporate the Global Vascular Guidelines on the Management of Patients with CLTI into practice. The three sessions are helpful in expanding physician knowledge base and improving clinical confidence and effectiveness in treating patients with CLTI.
Varicose Vein experts hosted an interactive session addressing diagnostic evaluation of patients with varicose veins, using duplex scanning to confirm pathologic superficial truncal reflux. The session also covered compression therapy, and open surgical and percutaneous endovenous therapies for lower extremity varicosities, including thermal and non-thermal ablations of the great, small and accessory saphenous veins. The treatment of perforating veins and the concomitant treatment of varicose tributaries with sclerotherapy or mini-phlebectomy were also be discussed.
In 2024, the Decision-Making in the CLTI Patient Series was launched through the support of a CMSS grant. These sessions feature expert moderators and faculty from around the country. They are aimed at expanding physician knowledge base and improving clinical confidence and effectiveness in treating patients with CLTI.
In the fall of 2024, expert faculty reviewed the recommendations for perioperative care based on the consensus statements developed by the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society and the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) in 2022, 2023 and 2024. In addition, practical examples of how ERAS protocols have been implemented in clinical practice are discussed.
The Society occasionally participates in Multi-specialty Consensus Documents with external organizations.
Reporting standards are intended to provide uniformity of definitions and classifications for comparative purposes. They are instructive on how to report information from clinical studies in a consistent manner to make it easy for the reader to compare results.
Find papers and information on vascular credentialing and clinical competencies.
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