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Portable Chest X-rays - RADMT

Posted: Feb 08, 2011

For those MTs who are radiology MTs, when you transcribe portable chest x-rays, does your hospital or MTSO require you to include not only the date of the portable chest x-ray but also the time?

Yes. In certain cases they do multiple ones a - day. NM

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Yes, absolutely...sm - RADMT

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Doctors check on the progression of the patient with successive chest x-rays. If the radiologist does not dictate the time on a portable chest x-ray, it is probably an oversight. When I worked at the hospital (physically present there, not at home), and a time wasn't included, I always pulled the x-ray jacket and took it to the radiologist to let them tell me what time to type. I could usually figure it out, but I would take the films to them anyway just to be sure. Many inpatients have several successive portable chest x-rays in one day, so to see them in order is very helpful to the attending; otherwise, they would have to take the time to figure out the order themselves.

Also, the technologist would get QA'd if the time stamp was not included on the film.

If dictated, definitely type the time in the heading.

Hope this helps, and I agree with other replier.

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