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Information guide addresses DVT, PE diagnosis, treatment
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Stephan Moll
Beth Waldron
A comprehensive information guide designed to help health care professionals involved in the care of patients who develop deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism is available online.
“Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism: Information for Newly Diagnosed Patients” offers patients information about their DVT or PE diagnosis, anticoagulant therapies, anticipated symptom improvement, and long-term implications of their clot and therapy.
The Clot Connect education outreach program of the University of North Carolina developed the guide, made possible by a grant from the CDC.
The 28-page brochure is available online as a PDF at files.www.clotconnect.org/DVT_and_PE.pdf.
Topics include:
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Basic information about blood clots, including causes and risk factors.
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Diagnosis, including tests and imaging studies.
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Treatment, including anticoagulants (injectables, warfarin, new oral anticoagulants), thrombolytic therapy and inferior vena cava filters.
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The relationship between cancer and blood clots.
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How to prevent complications.
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Answers to common patient questions.
Health care professionals are encouraged to share this resource with patients.
They may place the PDF of the brochure on the website of their medical practice or hospital, or reproduce the brochure in its entirety by providing the PDF to a printer of their choice.
Health care professionals also are welcome to affix a sticker to the print brochure that reads, “This brochure provided by” and lists their practice information.
For more information:
Stephan Moll, MD, is an associate professor in the department of medicine and division of hematology-oncology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, N.C., and medical director of the Clot Connect patient education program, an initiative of the University of North Carolina Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center. He may be reached at UNC Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center, 170 Manning Drive, 3rd Floor Physicians Office Building, Campus Box 7016, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7016; email: smoll@med.unc.edu.