Alan Ellison
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Plan

Title IVC filter removal
Learning/Development Need Case review: Inferior vena cava filter removal, three years and four months after implantation
How will this need be met?
  • Self-directed learning
Expected start date dd/mm/yyyy 05/07/2017
Planned completion date dd/mm/yyyy 05/07/2017
Resources required
  • Time
Potential barriers and how they may be overcome
BarriersSolutions
   
   
   
   
   
   
How will you know the learning is achieved Reflective account of learning
 

Tasks

Title 1. Read the article by Marie Nixon in Imaging & Therapy Practice
Description Nixon M (2017), 'IVC filter removal', Imaging & Therapy Practice, (August) pp12
Title 2. Consider if this article has given you a better understanding of why IVC filters should be removed when no longer required
Description If so, how?
Title 3. A patient has an extensive DVT and due to a history of falls, would you place an IVC filter or start anticoagulation therapy?
Description What would the patient be of increased risk of with anticoagulation therapy? A falls patient would be at increased risk of haemorrhage if put on anti-coagulation therapy, therefore, IVC filter should be employed.
Title 4. Reflect on what you’ve learned from this plan in CPD Now
Description

Use the prompts within CPD Now or another reflective model.

Upload your answers to the questions as evidence.

 

I have a greater understanding of IVC filter usage. I am mainly involved in vascular ultrasound, a good proportion of which is scanning for DVT. Our unit treats ileo-femoral DVT aggressively with thrombolysis or mechanical clot removal in iliac DVTs in selected cases, part of protocol obviously includes IVC filter placement.
Title 5. Set a review date for this plan
Description

Put a note in your calendar to review this plan and your action plan progress in 12 months. Add to the reflection at this time.

 

Will also check on our follow ups of ileo-femoral DVTs.

Review date set for 30/04/2019.
 

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