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This healthcare service has 2 current healthcare service locations.
Transcranial Doppler (TCD)   at
Foothills Medical Centre
Specialty: Neurology
Connect Care Department: CGY FMC TCD ULTRASOUND SVC
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 1 week
Alberta Health Services - Calgary Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Assessment and screening of circulation in the Circle of Willis, including screening for stroke risk.A Doppler assessment of the Circle of Willis to screen for potential narrowing of one of more arteries as well as various tests to assess for stroke risk including PFO bubble study and emboli detection. Patient demographics are primarily adult; however, TCD is used in pediatrics in Calgary in the Sickle Cell Disease clinic.
Assessment and screening of circulation in the Circle of Willis, including screening for stroke risk.A Doppler assessment of the Circle of Willis to screen for potential narrowing of one of more arteries as well as various tests to assess for stroke risk including PFO bubble study and emboli detection. Patient demographics are primarily adult; however, TCD is used in pediatrics in Calgary in the Sickle Cell Disease clinic.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
This service only accepts referrals for patients who are currently in the care of Stroke Neurologists with privileges at Foothills Medical Centre.
This service only accepts referrals for patients who are currently in the care of Stroke Neurologists with privileges at Foothills Medical Centre.
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR CONNECT CARE USERS
Referrals will only be accepted from FMC Stroke Neurologists.
Appointment requests should be submitted in Connect Care identifying the appropriate Connect Care treatment or procedure department.
Referrals will only be accepted from FMC Stroke Neurologists.
Appointment requests should be submitted in Connect Care identifying the appropriate Connect Care treatment or procedure department.
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
  • Referral receipt to referring source within 2 days.
  • Acceptance via appointment details or wait list status letter to referring source and patient within 5 days.
  • Appointment outcome to referral source within 30 days.
 
PHONE
403-944-3492
REFERRAL PHONE
403-944-3492
REFERRAL FORM
No referral form required.
No referral form required.
REFERRAL ADVICE
LINKED SPECIALISTS
CLICK + TO VIEW REFERRAL GUIDELINES
Routine Reason for Referral
Access Targets convey the clinically appropriate timeframe patients should be seen within, by reason for referral and priority level.
Access Target
Required Information/Investigations
Investigation Timing
Additional Details
Assessment of arterial blood flow using ultrasound
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Description, onset and duration of symptoms
 
Current

Patent foramen ovale
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Description, onset and duration of symptoms
 
Current

Sickle cell disease
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Description, onset and duration of symptoms
 
Current

Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Description, onset and duration of symptoms
 
Current

Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography of intracranial artery for detection of emboli
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Description, onset and duration of symptoms
 
Current
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
Please contact the clinic 48 hours in advance if you need to cancel or reschedule an appointment.
Please contact the clinic 48 hours in advance if you need to cancel or reschedule an appointment.
 
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday: 7:15 am - 3:30 pm
Tuesday: 7:15 am - 3:30 pm
Wednesday: 7:15 am - 3:30 pm
Thursday: 7:15 am - 3:30 pm
Friday: 7:15 am - 3:30 pm
   
 
ADDRESS
10th Floor, room 1079 Foothills Medical Centre main building
1403 29 Street NW
Calgary Alberta
T2N 2T9
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
  • Bring your Alberta health care card and a piece of government issued photo ID.
  • Check in at reception 15 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment time.
  • You may bring a family member or significant other during your consultation.
  • Please make sure to have someone with you if you are unable to communicate in English
  • Bring your Alberta health care card and a piece of government issued photo ID.
  • Check in at reception 15 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment time.
  • You may bring a family member or significant other during your consultation.
  • Please make sure to have someone with you if you are unable to communicate in English
 
DIRECTIONS
Located at the intersection of 16 Avenue NW and 29 Street NW.
Transit:
Public transportation is available to this facility.
Located at the intersection of 16 Avenue NW and 29 Street NW.
Transit:
Public transportation is available to this facility.
 
PHONE
403-944-3492
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
• Any pay station can be used to pay for any lot.
• Pay stations are located in all parking areas and most
building entrances.
• Pay stations accept cash and all major credit cards.
• Accessible parking is available in all public parking
lots and secondary surface lots

Once you have parked, pay for parking at any pay station or proceed
to the nearest parking office to purchase a long term parking pass.
Please remember your license plate as it is required for payment.
• Any pay station can be used to pay for any lot.
• Pay stations are located in all parking areas and most
building entrances.
• Pay stations accept cash and all major credit cards.
• Accessible parking is available in all public parking
lots and secondary surface lots

Once you have parked, pay for parking at any pay station or proceed
to the nearest parking office to purchase a long term parking pass.
Please remember your license plate as it is required for payment.
 
EMAIL
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
Not available.
Not available.
 
 
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
Yes

The primary purpose of the All Locations list is to let the user easily access any location of a healthcare service without going back to the main search screen.

The locations listed have 3 background colors:
  • Green means the healthcare service@location has referral information attached to it.
  • Brown means the healthcare service@location never had referral information attached to it, or it has unpublished referral information.
  • Red means
    • IA changed the healthcare service@location's status to something other than Current
    • It was deleted if it is an ARD healthcare service@location.
Green  and Brown are always at the top of the list. These are the Healthcare Service@Locations with the status of Current.
The Red list at the bottom consists of non-current Healthcare Service@locations that once had Published referral information in the ARD.
If the referral information was never published in ARD the Healthcare Service@location will not show in the Red list.

The secondary purpose of the All Locations list is to allow ARD Administrators to recover (copy) referral information from the non-current Healthcare Service@Locations to ones that are current.

Common Scenario:
A Healthcare Service moves from one location to another. In this case the IA Healthcare Service@Location record will be made defunct (non-current) and a new Healthcare Service@Location record will be created with a current status. In this scenario the captured referral guidelines in ARD can become "orphaned" as they are not attached to any current IA healthcare service.

Categories of non-current or orphaned referral guidelines: INDIVIDUAL and COMMON.
The REFERRAL GUIDELINES section of the profile has the prefix INDIVIDUAL or COMMON to help you choose the method below when transferring referral guidelines from a non-current Healthcare Service@Location to a current healthcare service@location.

Individual referral process
  1. Click on a non-current (Red) Healthcare Service@Location at the bottom of the All Locations list.
  2. The non-current referral info is displayed with the link Copy this Referral Process to another Healthcare Service@Location link on the upper right hand corner. Click on the copy link.
  3. Choose a current location (Green or Brown) from the All Locations list. This will be the Healthcare Service@Location you are pasting the referral info into.
  4. The system will display the Edit Referral Info screen populated with the referral info from the non-current Healthcare Service@Location you viewed in the first step.
  5. Click Save and the referral info is transferred from the non-current Healthcare Service@Location to the current one.
  6. Repeat these steps for each Healthcare Service@Location that needs attention.

Common referral process - 2 sub cases.
Case 1: At least 1 current Healthcare Service@Location with common referral info is with current status for this healthcare service; One or more Healthcare Healthcare Service@Locations where replaced by new one.
  1. Click on any current Healthcare Service@Location whether it has referral info (Green) or not (Brown).
  2. The healthcare service location opens in the Edit Referral Info screen populated with the current common referral info.
  3. Save it. 
  4. All locations will be updated with the common referral information, including all the locations that don't have referral info yet (Brown). The non-current referrals (Red) will also be updated.
Case 2:  All Healthcare Healthcare Service@Locations for a healthcare service are set to a non-current status and replaced by new ones. In this case there is no current additional referral info to copy from, so the only alternative is to pick up the non-current common referral process (Red). Follow the steps described in the section Individual Referral Process above to copy/paste the non-current common referral info to the current healthcare service locations.
Generally we want to replicate current common referral info to new or replaced healthcare service locations. We only resort to copying non-current common referral info if there is no other option.

Remember: Some fields can be location specific with the common referral process:
Parking Instructions, Directions, Parking Map, Wait Time, Referral Phone or Referral Fax.
To update these items you have to edit each Healthcare Service@Location separately.

ADDITONAL NOTES:
  • The info icon after the All Locations drop down will be visible to ARD Administrators.
  • The system doesn't allow you to copy referral information from one non-current Healthcare Service@Location to another.

 

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