How to Know if Person Administering Sclerotherapy is Qualified?

The person adminsitering Sclerotherapy should be at minimum a registered nurse and should have attended formal training to be qualified. It is important to ask any Sclerotherapy injector if they have completed a formal training course, how many patients they have treated, and how long they have been administering treatments.

You should ask the physician what their background training is (that is emergency room, psychiatry, dentistry, gynecology, plastic surgery, etc). Any physician can take a weekend course or shorter and do this procedure the next day. More importantly what you want to ask is how many of these procedures has the physician performed, how long has he/she been doing this procedure, can you see pictures of patients that have had the procedure, and can you talk with patients that have had the... more