Re: consulting
From: Allen Worrall (jworrall@alaska.net)
Wed Aug 10 14:50:30 2005
No, I am sure you are not wrong. I am sure it takes more time when you both do and interpret the scan, as you and I do. I am not sure how experience influences the time - I have heard that after 6 months or so one does become faster.
Of course the Doctor from Boston who gave the lecture at the GE evening event may have said that it takes the sonographers less time to acquire volumes than to take separate images. Maybe she was not including the time it takes the radiologist to work with the volumes.
I tried to get my colleagues here at the clinic interested in a 3D/4D machine. It went over like a lead balloon, so I will have to wait longer.
Allen
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From: ACF
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Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:38 AM
Subject: Re: consulting
Allen
I also attended that event ... and as you, I do my own scans, many involve 3D. Here's my experience to date - NO net time-savings. Actually, for some studies, it takes more time - the time normally spent with the patient AND the time manipulating volumes for additional views. Also, while I'm at it - the ultrasound manufacturers need to get together on a uniform standard for volume storage to facilitate second opinions, etc. Hopefully, these details will get ironed out ASAP - especially if the mavens insist on it.
Just my opinion - I could be wrong.
Art
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Allen Worrall wrote:
Terry, I think I saw you at that lecture in Orlando, a GE supper event, in which a young woman radiologist from Boston,(I think) related that her ultrasound department was bogged down with too many cases, and one of the things that helped them was 3D ultrasound. The volumes can be obtained quickly, and looked at later by the radiologist.
Has this speaker published her lecture anywhere? I thought it was very good and very thought-provoking.
Allen
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From: Terry DuBose
To: Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND-HISTORY
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: consulting
Dr. De Lancer, you ask a question that many have asked. In general sonography (Abdomen and OB/GYN) usually no more than two an hour in peak rush times. It depends on how detailed the studies are, but at bottom line, two an hour average is too much if it is all day every day. This is based on my experience of 29 years and not on any scientific study.
For you second question I would say anytime the sonographer is rushed enough to not be able to focus on the diagnosis, that is too many. There needs to be a bit of flexibility to allow for the unexpected twins or other detailed study.
Also do not forget that over work, continuously over a period of months or years can injure the sonographer. Repeated Stress Injuries are well documented now. See:
http://www.sdms.org/msi/default.asp
Hope this helps. Terry
jose de lancer <josedelancer@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi, i am Dr. Jose De Lancer from Dominican Republic.
I am obstetrician, gynecologist and sonologist.
We have troubles in our hospital sonografy department for the "overdemand" in ultrasound studies.
What is your opinion in the following isues:
1-How many studies are reasonable for each sonographer in one day?
2-How afect the excesive number of patients in the individual and department quality?
Thanks for your cooperation!!
"DuBose, Terry" <DuboseTerryJ@uams.edu> escribió:
Congratulations to everyone on another landmark event. Good work. Terry
Terry J. DuBose, M.S., RDMS, FSDMS, FAIUM
Associate Professor & Director
Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, CHRP
4301 West Markham St. Mail Slot #563
Little Rock, Arkansas, 72205 USA
501-686-6510
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http://www.obgyn.net/us/panel/panel.htm
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