Fletcher Allen, a Vermont university hospital and medical center, serves all of
Vermont and the northern New York region. Located in Burlington, Fletcher Allen is a regional, academic healthcare center and teaching hospital in alliance with the University of Vermont.
Thrombosis and Hemostasis Clinical Services
Mission
Our clinical mission is to provide consultative care with primary care providers and other specialists to enhance the care of patients with thrombosis and its complications, thrombophilia and bleeding disorders.
Providers
Our providers are board-certified hematologists and specialty trained nurse practitioners and nurses who work together as a team, involving other specialists from the laboratory and other services as needed, to achieve the highest quality patient-centered care.
Thrombosis Disorders:
- Outpatient treatment of deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
- Care of patients with new DVT or pulmonary embolus (PE) after their hospital discharge
- Warfarin (Coumadin) education
- Individualized consultation on duration of anticoagulation after DVT or PE
- Bridging therapy for interruption of anticoagulation in patients requiring invasive procedures
- Preoperative consultation for DVT prevention in high-risk surgical patients
- State-of-the-art laboratory diagnostic services for thrombophilia
- Consultation on appropriateness of retrieval of inferior vena cava filters
- Post-thrombotic syndrome management
- Genetic counseling for inherited thrombophilia
- Management of pregnancy related deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolus or thrombophilic conditions.
Bleeding Disorders:
Programs fall under the auspices of the Hemophilia Treatment Center program, funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
- Diagnosis and management of adult hemophilia, von Willebrand’s disease and related disorders
- Preoperative consultation for bleeding prevention in at-risk patients
- Genetic counseling of families with hereditary bleeding disorders
