SHORT CERT LIKELY — 1-YEAR
The checker reads your verdict. The Kit gets you through the exam: documentation packets for your condition, the two 45-day form clocks run as a calendar, the official medication form packet, waiting-period calendars, failure recovery, and the examiner phone script.
Federal source: FMCSA Medical Examiner's Handbook 2024, Cardiovascular/Respiratory · Rules checked October 2026
Advisory criteria: after a deep-vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism, certification follows stabilization on treatment with the treating clinician's documentation; where anticoagulation continues, the warfarin discipline (monthly INR documentation) or the newer agents' examiner-judgment path applies. Certification runs at 1-year intervals.
The clot starts a treatment-and-documentation chapter, not a career ending — provided the cause workup is clean and treatment is stable.
Certificate this points to: 1-YEAR certificates, while the standard's monitoring continues.
Bring hospital records, the cause evaluation, current treatment plan, and INR history if on warfarin.
This question is decided by the federal text together with its published advisory criteria — clocks, thresholds, and specialist files. The verdict above follows the cited criteria; your documentation is what proves you meet them.
Only a certified medical examiner on the National Registry can certify you. FreightVerdict reads the published federal standards — it does not certify, diagnose, or treat, and nothing here is medical advice.
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