Triage of patients with venous and lymphatic diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic – The Venous and Lymphatic Triage and Acuity Scale (VELTAS)
| العنوان: | Triage of patients with venous and lymphatic diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic – The Venous and Lymphatic Triage and Acuity Scale (VELTAS) |
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| المؤلفون: | David Jenkins, Alberto Martinez Granados, Roy Varghese, Victor Manuel Canata, Sergio Gianesini, Marlin Schul, William A. Marston, Andrew Stirling, Marianne De Maeseneer, Andrew N. Nicolaides, Cees H. A. Wittens, Paul Dinnen, Andre M. van Rij, Simon Thibault, Mark H. Meissner, Peter Gloviczki, Malay Patel, Brajesh K. Lal, Adrian Lim, Alun H. Davies, Stefania Roberts, Peter Paraskevas, Christopher Rogan, Lowell S. Kabnick, Oscar Bottini, Antonios P. Gasparis, Harold J. Welch, Kurosh Parsi, David Huber, Nick Morrison, Pedro Komlos, Stephen Benson |
| المصدر: | Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders Phlebology |
| بيانات النشر: | Elsevier BV, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | medicine.medical_specialty, Consensus, Deep vein, Clinical Decision-Making, Pneumonia, Viral, Psychological intervention, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Decision Support Techniques, lymphatic, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, vascular, medicine, International Union of Phlebology (UIP) Consensus Document, Humans, Vascular Diseases, 030212 general & internal medicine, vascular malformations, Vein, Lymphatic Diseases, Pandemics, venous, Health Services Needs and Demand, medicine.diagnostic_test, SARS-CoV-2, business.industry, pandemic, Patient Selection, COVID-19, Interventional radiology, Decision Support Systems, Clinical, medicine.disease, Thrombosis, Triage, Lymphatic disease, Pulmonary embolism, vascular anomalies, medicine.anatomical_structure, Emergency medicine, Surgery, Coronavirus Infections, Emergency Service, Hospital, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business |
| الوصف: | The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic has resulted in diversion of healthcare resources to the management of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus. Elective interventions and surgical procedures in most countries have been postponed and operating room resources have been diverted to manage the pandemic. The Venous and Lymphatic Triage and Acuity Scale was developed to provide an international standard to rationalise and harmonise the management of patients with venous and lymphatic disorders or vascular anomalies. Triage urgency was determined based on clinical assessment of urgency with which a patient would require medical treatment or surgical intervention. Clinical conditions were classified into six categories of: (1) venous thromboembolism (VTE), (2) chronic venous disease, (3) vascular anomalies, (4) venous trauma, (5) venous compression and (6) lymphatic disease. Triage urgency was categorised into four groups and individual conditions were allocated to each class of triage. These included (1) medical emergencies (requiring immediate attendance), example massive pulmonary embolism; (2) urgent (to be seen as soon as possible), example deep vein thrombosis; (3) semi-urgent (to be attended to within 30-90 days), example highly symptomatic chronic venous disease, and (4) discretionary/non-urgent- (to be seen within 6-12 months), example chronic lymphoedema. Venous and Lymphatic Triage and Acuity Scale aims to standardise the triage of patients with venous and lymphatic disease or vascular anomalies by providing an international consensus-based classification of clinical categories and triage urgency. The scale may be used during pandemics such as the current COVID-19 crisis but may also be used as a general framework to classify urgency of the listed conditions. |
| تدمد: | 2213-333X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jvsv.2020.05.002 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::603d25fddde28d48715fa5f227d2537a https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvsv.2020.05.002 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....603d25fddde28d48715fa5f227d2537a |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 2213333X |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jvsv.2020.05.002 |