Re: ob us in office - ROI worth it? - machine choices?
From: mark decker (mhdmd@wi.rr.com)
Wed Nov 14 14:30:24 2007
thanks to everyone that replied - spoke directly with aium
credentials as well - so thanks a lot
mark
new question...
roi...is it good for doing scans in office? - machines you like for
small office - me and another doc max
advice - experience - appreciated
mark
- At 12:28 PM 11/14/2007, you wrote:
>AIUM Guidelines -
>http://www.aium.org/publications/clinical/obstetric.pdf
>
>And those are for the Routine studies, NOT the targeted exams. As you
>can see, there are no more Level 1's.
>
>Art
>
>At Wed, 14 Nov 2007, R. Daniel Braun wrote:
> >
> >Read the AIUM and ACOG guidelines and follow them. Generate the reports for
> >each exam. There are lots of programs to do so.
> >
> >Dan
> >
> >On Nov 13, 2007 9:06 PM, mark decker <mhdmd@wi.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I came out of residency in 88 - nearly 20 years ago now
> >>
> >> we did a detailed - old school level II training rotation - not
> >> aium's 300 cases - but a lot of level II scans
> >> and we did the full routine ob scan on a high number - over 300 i am
> >> sure - ob cases in 4 years - measurements - anatomy basics - position
> >> number - placenta - cervix- fluid and the like
> >>
> >> i am opening up a new practice and would like to have an us for
> >> limited scan purposes - specific questions
> >>
> >> bpps - position - fluid - growth - iugr question <not often this as
> >> f/u extensive scan would follow with definite concerns> - viability
> >> early on with spotting and no fhts -
> >>
> >> usual on L&D questions I would prefer to do in the office and save
> >> the trip to ob
> >>
> >> i have a lot of experience with these specific question scans in L&D
> >> over the years and in L&D the BPP was usually the main reason for the scan
> >>
> >> question is - if in office and i want to do the above how does my
> >> training in 84-88 and experience since hold up today re legitimacy in
> >> doing and "reading" results?
> >>
> >> i am not talking at this point in doing all my routine scans - i am
> >> talking about limited scans in todays world
> >>
> >> thanks in advance
> >>
> >--
> >R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG(L) CMT
> >Professor Emeritus
> >Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology
> >Indiana U. School of Medicine
> >
> >R. Daniel Braun
> >
> > "Science without Religion is LAME; Religion without Science is BLIND"
> > Einstein 1941
> >
>
>--
>art fougner, md
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