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[danareinke]

Hi, I was wondering how you would handle if a provider states that both posterior tibial pulse and dorsalis pedis pulse are absent, but they were able to find one pulse using a doppler. Does this could as two class b findings or just one since they could locate one using the doppler?

 

[podcoder70]

In assigning class findings related to pulses, manual palpation is appropriate. What is found on doppler is a separate or in "addition to" finding and good medicine in determining definitive diagnosis of peripheral artery disease, and abnormal or uncertain findings should be confirmed with objective vascular testing.