Practice Management

  • 1.  Visitors in the ultrasound room

    Posted 05-28-2021 11:18
    I wonder if most practices allow children (< 8-12 years old) in the ultrasound exam room with the patient. Specifically, I have concern for child safety due to possible fall risk, being in a dark room with cords and equipment, as well as tech distraction during the exam if the child is unruly (screaming, running around, etc.) and the patient unable to supervise without interrupting the exam. So the question is: do you have age limit on visitors to the ultrasound exam room?
    Thanks for your input
    Fadi

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    Fadi Bsat, MD
    Past Chair, SMFM Coding Committee
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  • 2.  RE: Visitors in the ultrasound room

    Posted 06-25-2021 10:45
    Since Covid we have not allowed children.  Prior to that, we requested that another adult be present if I child would be there. However, often a patient would bring a child without another adult and we generally did not turn them away.  This did result in some of the challenges mentioned above.

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    Robert Ehsanipoor
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  • 3.  RE: Visitors in the ultrasound room

    Posted 06-25-2021 19:09
    We used to let children in the room with another adult. However, often patients would just come with their children. There have been a number of times as the provider where I have taken a crying baby or a child and watched them until the US was finished.
    With COVID, we stopped letting anyone in for quite sometime when TN was in epicenter of the pandemic. We have now started letting in one support person. No children under 18. I do not see this changing for the rest of this year

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    Cornelia Graves
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  • 4.  RE: Visitors in the ultrasound room

    Posted 06-27-2021 09:20
    Thank you Cornelia for sharing your process.
    Fadi

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    Fadi BSAT, MD
    Past Chair, SMFM Coding Committee
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  • 5.  RE: Visitors in the ultrasound room

    Posted 06-27-2021 15:43
    Thank you for sharing your experience.
    Fadi

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    Fadi BSAT, MD
    Past Chair, SMFM Coding Committee
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  • 6.  RE: Visitors in the ultrasound room

    Posted 06-28-2021 15:14
    For a number of years we required an accompanying adult but then we had an incident where the adult was not containing the child and the result was a broken transducer. Our current policy is no children under 12 allowed.

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    Donna Kelly
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