Are CT Scans Safe

[classic33]

You don't have to tell patients all risks, I stick anaesthetic in or onto people most days but never recall telling them a side effect might be methaemoglobinaemia...............

Shaun

Lignocane stopped my heart twice, on seperate occassions. So now its no longer given/used.

 

[classic33]

Has there been any progress with that national NHS computer system?

When I had my second PE last year the hospital that I ended up at in Northampton could not access my records in Halifax. It shocked me that I had to tell the consultant my history because he could not just look it up!

Any idea why they didn't just phone the General Hospital?

 

[ColinJ]

Any idea why they didn't just phone the General Hospital?

I imagine that doctors do have to do that all the time in the UK. I wear a tag with my NHS number and various other bits of information on. If I were found unconscious somewhere then they would have to start making phonecalls if they can't look up my records using that number.

It isn't quite the same thing is it, to have to phone people up and get them to read documents out to you rather than just bringing the records up on a computer screen and reading them yourself?

 

[Tin Pot]

I always take the gamblers approach to these things, and I can see some thought has already gone into defining the tiny chance if something going wrong from the scan.

However, what are the chances of benefiting from the CT scan, let's say in a Dr Banner style Hulking?

 

[ufkacbln]

I always take the gamblers approach to these things, and I can see some thought has already gone into defining the tiny chance if something going wrong from the scan.

However, what are the chances of benefiting from the CT scan, let's say in a Dr Banner style Hulking?

Totally OT... And probably something I shouldn't share, but for the greater good

I have two new staff and sent them for ID Badges and due to a printer fault, their faces are bright green

Forget the Hulk or Shrek, these badges woukd work as HiViz

I have refused to accept as it is unprofessional,and you cannot say there is no risk of your staff ARE BRIGHT GREEN

 

[The Jogger]

Just an update, had the cystoscopy today (legs crossed) all good, he also had a look at the scan as well and said he has yet to hear from the radiologist but it looks good to him, (the urologist that is) and no kidney stone that he could see or anything else. Phew

 

[ufkacbln]

Good news, and As I said earlier, although counter-intuitive, a negative result excluding a problem is still a valid reason for the scan

 

[The Jogger]

Good news, and As I said earlier, although counter-intuitive, a negative result excluding a problem is still a valid reason for the scan

I totally agree and thanks.

 

[Smurfy]

I eat bananas most days

 

[Lisa21]

I have had a couple, the last one about 5 years ago, on my head. I suffer intermittently with extremely bad Trigeminal Neuralgia and the specialist wanted to see if there was a specific cause which surgery may help. There isn't. But some may say im still absolutely fine ..

 

[The Jogger]

Got a letter about the UT CT scan, showing essentially healthy bladder and kidneys, however showing a tiny 1mm stone in the lower pole of the left kidney, no treatment needed........hopefully I will pee it out, yet the twinges are on the right side. I don't care, quite pleased actually.............

 

[ColinJ]

Got a letter about the UT CT scan, showing essentially healthy bladder and kidneys, however showing a tiny 1mm stone in the lower pole of the left kidney, no treatment needed........hopefully I will pee it out, yet the twinges are on the right side. I don't care, quite pleased actually.............

I think I passed a stone when I was about 20 years old. I had agonising pain for a couple of hours and peed some blood, but then it all eased. I never had the problem again.

 

[ufkacbln]

I think I passed a stone when I was about 20 years old. I had agonising pain for a couple of hours and peed some blood, but then it all eased. I never had the problem again.

Allegedly the closest that us men will ever come to child birth!

Now if only getting a renal stone was as much fun!

 

[ColinJ]

Allegedly the closest that us men will ever come to child birth!

Now if only getting a renal stone was as much fun!

And, as usual, I did not see a doctor! (It all happened in the middle of the night and I decided to wait until the surgery opened in the morning, by which time I was ok.)

 

[The Jogger]

I've had a few big kidney stones and after having spoken to a colleague who has not only had stones herself but also given birth, she can testify that in her experience the KS pain is worse than that she experienced in CB.