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Re: Informed Consent for prenatal ultrasound From: Peg Beutler, RDMS (kpnb@voyager.net) Fri May 21 20:33:54 1999 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Peg Beutler, RDMS: "Re: disappearing twin" Previous message: DR.JOE ANTONY: "received free book" In reply to: Joseph Allen Worrall Jr. MD RDMS: "Informed Consent for prenatal ultrasound" When I was faced with having to get an "Informed Consent" (nothing more than a surgical consent form with one line typed in that ultrasound isn't 100% accurate), I got so many questions from the 2 or 3 patients I tried it with, that I stopped doing it. They wanted to know everything, including why did they have to sign it now when they never had to before...was there something wrong...stuff like that. I couldn't very well tell them it was because the Dr. didn't want to get sued if I missed something. And the Dr. wouldn't come in to talk to them, which made things more uncomfortable. And think about this....if we can't tell the sex, or get a cool pic of the face for the photo album, doesn't it occur to them that there could be other things we can't see? At Fri, 14 May 1999, Joseph Allen Worrall Jr. MD RDMS wrote: > >Our Clinic is in the midst of a JCAHO Accreditation Survey >(yesterday and today). Last evening at the first day summation briefing >both surveyors (an MD and an administrator) recommended that we obtain >informed consent for every prenatal ultrasound. > >I do not believe we are going to get a serious demerit because we do not >presently do that. I readily agreed to do it. It can do not harm, and >will not be a major problem for my ultrasound practice since I do only >zero to four ultrasounds per day including gyn scans. > >I thought I would let everyone know. > >PS - the survey is going well and I think we will become Accredited! For >those of you who have been through this, you know what a big deal it is! > >-- >Joseph A Worrall MD RDMS >Fairbanks, Alaska > Next message: Peg Beutler, RDMS: "Re: disappearing twin" Previous message: DR.JOE ANTONY: "received free book" In reply to: Joseph Allen Worrall Jr. MD RDMS: "Informed Consent for prenatal ultrasound"

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