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brain scan

  • 12-10-2013 2:32pm
    #1
    shane.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 558 ✭✭✭


    is it common for a hospital to have no one to read a brain scan at the weekend?


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  • #2
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,093 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    off the top of my head, i'd say probably yes. this is ireland after all.
    hope things are ok.


  • #3
    Vorsprung
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭Vorsprung


    There's only emergency cover at the weekend in nearly all hospitals, so scans that change a patient's management over the weekend tend to be the ones that are reported on.


  • #4
    Xeyn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Xeyn


    If the scan was ordered and performed over the weekend it would have to have been an emergent issue, in which case it would definitely need to be reported. If it was a routine scan performed as an out patient it will not be reported.


  • #5
    dermabrasion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 471 ✭✭dermabrasion


    Scans done as an emergency may be read by a non radiologist (e.g. surgeon, ED doctor) to out-rule major or life threatening pathology such as a intracranial haemorrhage. If the requesting doctor is still not sure if there is something on the scan, and it correlates with the patients symptoms, they may request the radiologist to come in and read the scan on call. If the scan has nothing obvious, the scan will be formally read by the radiologist and reported in the next few days.


  • #6
    Vorsprung
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭Vorsprung


    dermabrasion wrote: »
    Scans done as an emergency may be read by a non radiologist (e.g. surgeon, ED doctor) to out-rule major or life threatening pathology such as a intracranial haemorrhage. If the requesting doctor is still not sure if there is something on the scan, and it correlates with the patients symptoms, they may request the radiologist to come in and read the scan on call. If the scan has nothing obvious, the scan will be formally read by the radiologist and reported in the next few days.

    This strikes me as unsafe. If you're getting a scan in an emergency, by all mean have a look yourself but the verbal report should be coming from a radiology reg or radiologist soon after it's done.


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  • #7
    dermabrasion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 471 ✭✭dermabrasion


    Vorsprung, you are correct and in most cases they are read by a radiologist and a verbal opinion given to the requesting doc. The written report is what takes time to come around. The requesting doc may wait for the formal report to be issued with a consultants signature before giving the final opinion to the patient


  • #8
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    shane. wrote: »
    is it common for a hospital to have no one to read a brain scan at the weekend?

    Be lucky to have a doctor at all sometimes

    http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column%E2%80%9Cim-sorry-there-are-no-doctors%E2%80%9D-what-its-like-to-work-in-an-understaffed-emergency-department-1004695-Jul2013/


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