Emergency Radiology group - radRounds Radiology Network2024-03-29T06:14:16Zhttps://community.radrounds.com/forum/topics/1791588:Topic:10161?groupUrl=emergencyradiologygroup&feed=yes&xn_auth=noI agree with you. This is our…tag:community.radrounds.com,2009-02-20:1791588:Comment:316442009-02-20T19:55:53.072ZAlessandro Lemos,MDhttps://community.radrounds.com/profile/AlessandroLemosMD
I agree with you. This is our problem, too..The problem now is that emergency physician are under pressure...in particular for malpractice. So...even if not necessary they ask a lot of x-rays. Extra-radiation dose exposure is not justified, and our colleagues have to be educated on the risk of it. We currently read a hip and knee together, without the need of a separated film.<br />
Regards, Alessandro Lemos.
I agree with you. This is our problem, too..The problem now is that emergency physician are under pressure...in particular for malpractice. So...even if not necessary they ask a lot of x-rays. Extra-radiation dose exposure is not justified, and our colleagues have to be educated on the risk of it. We currently read a hip and knee together, without the need of a separated film.<br />
Regards, Alessandro Lemos. As a tech working in a major…tag:community.radrounds.com,2009-02-20:1791588:Comment:316122009-02-20T03:57:29.770ZErin Tatehttps://community.radrounds.com/profile/ErinTate
As a tech working in a major trauma center I get frustrated at trauma doctors ordering multiple exams/bodygrams when a patient has an abrasion or just pain on palpation in a certain area. A few examples - an MVC with an abrasion on the thigh will get orders for a pelvis (standard trauma protocol), hip, femur and knee. We got a patient in that was the victim of an agg. assault <i>3 weeks prior</i> and we did plain films of shoulder(3 views), humerus, elbow, forearm, wrist and hand as well as…
As a tech working in a major trauma center I get frustrated at trauma doctors ordering multiple exams/bodygrams when a patient has an abrasion or just pain on palpation in a certain area. A few examples - an MVC with an abrasion on the thigh will get orders for a pelvis (standard trauma protocol), hip, femur and knee. We got a patient in that was the victim of an agg. assault <i>3 weeks prior</i> and we did plain films of shoulder(3 views), humerus, elbow, forearm, wrist and hand as well as bilateral hips w/ pelvis, femur, knee and tib-fib - in my opinion it seems extremely redundant to image joints multiple times when there is not a specific injury, it seems like the doctors are just grasping at straws or not using their clinical skills. I would like to get a radiologist's point of view on this. Is the extra radiation exposure to the patient justified? Can you read for example - a hip and knee on a femur film or does it require seperate films? I'm working at a I level trau…tag:community.radrounds.com,2008-08-19:1791588:Comment:209582008-08-19T07:50:05.790ZAlessandro Lemos,MDhttps://community.radrounds.com/profile/AlessandroLemosMD
I'm working at a I level trauma center.<br />
We used a dual-source CT (Siemens Definition) . We aalso have a 4 detector CT.
I'm working at a I level trauma center.<br />
We used a dual-source CT (Siemens Definition) . We aalso have a 4 detector CT. hi
what the environment you w…tag:community.radrounds.com,2008-08-19:1791588:Comment:209522008-08-19T04:53:19.669Zhussienhttps://community.radrounds.com/profile/hussien
hi<br />
what the environment you work in it?<br />
what the theater u use?<br />
what kind of machine?<br />
what the risk u intend ?
hi<br />
what the environment you work in it?<br />
what the theater u use?<br />
what kind of machine?<br />
what the risk u intend ?