The phlebological pedestal screen-patient is a device which maintains
the patient up, man or woman, on a convenient height so that an explorer sitting
next to him, can accede to the complete leg and haunch from the ingle to the
foot’s plant and to carry out the manual and instrumental necessary exploratory
manoeuvres. As a result, the explorer can perfectly look into the explored member
and obtain the anatomical and hemodinamic information of the venous system (so-called
venous map).
The phlebological screen-patient pursues and achieves three
basic objectives:
A) To obtain immediately and without long explanations
and trials that the patient, situated upon the phlebological screen-patient,
adopt the adequate position to carry out the venous
exploration of the studied member. In that position, the patient should
have the leg in study, with the knee slightly bent in order to reach muscular
relaxation. The weight of the body must be loaded upon the other extremity with
the necessary pelvis accommodation to maintain the axis of gravity.
B) The rotation of the patient, making accessible all
the contour of the member without altering the position of the realised
exploration.
C) Applicable to both members in alternative way
without complex adaptations or changes of its structure.
Other aims would be the possibility of motorization as well as to be utilizable
as stool of access to a conventional exploration table of standard height and
to be adoptable to the phlebological table Canymus.
In summary, it serves for positioning correctly the patient with chronic venous
insufficiency of the lower members, and makes possible the manual and instrumental
explorations. That brings to the correct anatomic and hemodinamic diagnostic
represented by venous cartography or varicose map.