Organizational aspects in one phlebology center: the Tuscany model [Aspetti organizzativi di un Centro di Flebologia: il modello toscano]

The author reports about the organization of the phlebology center at the University of Siena, directed since 1985 by Professor Mancini. The center is equipped with 5 phlebology outpatient settings, with own instruments for non-invasive vascular diagnostics, with one operating theatre and with own equipment for phlebological rehabilitation. At present, in this center a group of specialist doctors and experts in phlebological formation works and practices everyday more than 30 performances instrumental vascular diagnostic both in election, both also in urgency for the patients coming from the Ready Aid. The therapeutic performance, which the phlebology surgical activity, the sclerotherapy, the ulcer dressing, are carried out on specific days of the week. The organization of the Center of Phlebology has to answer indeed to the demands of the use, simplifying the procedures of access, decreasing the times of attended of the diagnostic performance and the therapeutics and the reducing to the least one the interferences with the common habits of life, kind of the elderly patients