Ultrasound results
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Mum went for her abdominal ultrasound today, she asked the girl doing it can she see anything there and the girl said she couldn’t see anything too worrying and that someone has to go over the images, then told her to phone gp in a week for results.
Is this the normal procedure?
If she had of seen something more sinister would my mum be told straight away or still have to wait
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Legend13 missd14
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missd14 Legend13
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biliarydyskines missd14
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lester90053 missd14
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sian04651 missd14
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Hi
I'm training to be a nurse although currently on a deferral due to own ill health.
Yes it is normal procedure as she was referred by GP the GP is responsible for providing the results and discussing.
If there is any real problem the results are sent over to GP generally within 24 hrs and your mum would receive a call to go in.
If this does not happen then 7 days is standard and it would either be something minor found or nothing at all found.
If you hear nothing and find the results are not good in 7 days this would be bad practice and shouldn't happen.
I hope this helps.
sian04651 missd14
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If it's something serious and they needed to keep your mum in they would get a 2nd opinion first ask you to wait and then return to discuss. So rest easy it's not anything urgent!
mary19068 missd14
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If thete is something sinister your doc will phone yr mum.....
pippa58442 missd14
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A friend of my dad’s had an ultrasound and it picked up a serious problem and she knew straight away because the girl doing the scan looked very worried and held her hand.
linda9693 missd14
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They're not allowed to give the results to any patient in case they give the incorrect information. A doctor has to look at the imaging and only they can give the results. If it was something sinister they would speed up the results.
It's normal practice
sanya11314 missd14
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the 'girl' seems to be a technician, not the sonographer looking at pics and doing results.
this is ok for usual plain basic scans, but not for very tricky flow/velocity scans.
Had my fair share with technicians taking wrong pictures, hence sonographer could only read the result by provided pics.
It is a 'cost' thing unfortunately, that sadly you don't get a sonographer to do your imaging, but a technician, who is not allowed to do any interpretation of pics taken and also doesn't have the training for tricky interpretation, just the bland obvious one.
Technicians are not allowed to tell you what they see as it might be different to what the sonographer sees.
If there was the obvious to the blind problem, they get up and talk to sonographer right there in case an in hospital stay was needed right then.
Everything else will be reported via sonographer (not technician) to the referring GP.