How to discuss alternatives to Microsclerotherapy

How to discuss alternatives to Microsclerotherapy

Your patient may come armed with information from Dr Google. They've been scrolling through the internet, youtube and instagram and they have a ton of questions. What about Thermavein? What about laser? What is Clacs? Etc, ect.. What are you going to say? Here’s how you deal with these questions and many more and how you reassure your patients that Microsclerotherapy is the best option for their small leg veins.

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Introduction and Welcome

  • Road to Success | Kelly Harris's Success Story1

Everything You Need to Know About Microsclerotherapy in One Easy-to-Read Book | The Course Manual

  • Microsclerotherapy Course Manual

A New Understanding of Why We Get Leg Spider Veins and Blue Veins | Leading to Better Treatment Strategies

  • Why Are You Still Using CEAP?
  • A New Understanding of Why We Get Leg Spider Veins and Blue Veins | Leading to Better Treatment Strategies

Choose Well to Get Better Results | Patient Assessment and Selection

  • Who to Treat | Who Not to Treat
  • Patient Selection2
  • Continuous Wave Doppler Examination
  • Reference List of Inclusion Criteria and Contraindications1
  • The Consultation and Consent Process | Manage Expectations | Improve Patient Satisfaction

Know What to Inject | Sclerosants

  • What am I injecting? | How does it work?
  • Sclerosants Lecture

Hit the Target More Often | Tips for Injection Technique | Accuracy Improves Efficacy

  • This is what it's about
  • Injection Technique
  • Examples of Good Microsclerotherapy Technique

What about Stockings | Is Compression Necessary?

  • Expensive, sometimes uncomfortable, but are they necessary?
  • What is medical compression and is it useful after sclerotherapy?

After Injections | Helping the Healing Process | Post-Procedure Managment and Aftercare

  • The Process Now Begins
  • Aftercare following Microsclerotherapy

You Will Have Complications! | How to Avoid Them and How to Treat Them

  • There will be difficulties
  • Complications Lecture
  • Reference Anaphylaxis Poster
  • Emergency Treatment Of Anaphylactic Reactions

These Veins Are Small | Help with Seeing Them Better | More Accurate Injections

  • See better | Inject more accurately
  • Aids to Visualisation Lecture

Every Picture Tells a Story | Clinical Photography | The Best Boost to Patient Satisfaction is to Show Them The Photographs

  • Should You Photograph?
  • Photography in Microsclerotherapy
  • GMC Guidance on Photograpy and Videography

Not Getting The Results You Expect? | My Troubleshooting Approach

  • When things don't go according to plan.
  • Troubleshooting Lecture
  • When to Refer Patients with Telangiectasias and Reticular Veins

Your Patient Asks About Laser | What do You Say? | Alternatives to Microsclerotherapy

  • How to discuss alternatives to Microsclerotherapy
  • Alternative Treatment Options Lecture

After Finishing This Course | Get Your Course Certificate

  • QUIZ
  • Guide to taking the Quiz
  • Guide to taking the survey
  • Feedback Survey

BONUS SECTION

  • Bonus Files | Information for Patients | Consent Forms
  • Consent to Making and Using Visual Recordings of Patients
  • Consent to Microsclerotherapy
  • Information on Microsclerotherapy