You know the drill. Patient with leg pain…..possible DVT. Scan it yourself. You’ve done the scan. You know the
10-minute teaching article showing that the two point compression scan is enough. But is it? There have been articles that show we miss a significant proportion when we only scan these two points or regions, and now we’ve got a
big ED study showing this. Is it OK to miss 6% of DVTs? Let’s discuss.
Next episode, we’ll demonstrate exactly our approach and then talk about some crazy stuff like PW, augmentation, etc. Stay Tuned!