RADIOLOGY

Weekday, before 5pm: order via POE

Weekday, after 5pm OR Weekend/Holidays (except for plain films): www.3rads.com OR dictation line 7-2489 (code 01234#) then enter patient ID# without check digit

PLAIN FILMS

During the day, order through POE. You may also want to check that it is truly ordered (5-6126). Films are processed and initially placed on a shelf in the Tower Basement behind the Children’s X-Ray Waiting Room. They are then moved to Central Viewing (5-6751) on the Reading Boards to be read by the radiologist. After it has been read and results dictated, they will be placed on the board corresponding to the patient’s floor. Occasionally, portable films are taken to the 7^th floor developing room, located by the Halsted stairwell; ask the tech doing your X-ray where it will go.

All the films for MICU and CCU patients (including CCP beds) are located on the 7^th floor.

After 9:45 PM on weekdays and after 4:00 PM on the weekends, call the ED Radiology (5-2176). You still have to officially order the films through OrderNet, and you must also choose “overnight” or “Stat” on the menu. The films are read in the ED Radiology Room and will be sent to Central Viewing the following morning; call the ER Censor (3-RADS) if you need help reading an X-ray after hours.

CT, ULTRASOUND, GI STUDIES,

Call the specific division to schedule and order the test through OrderNet (see JHH NUMBERS for phone numbers). After 5 PM or so, any emergent evening studies need to go through the ED Radiology Censor first (5-2174 or 3-RADS or use the www.3rads.com web-site).

NUCLEAR MEDICINE

Call 5-4100 to schedule. V/Q scan, gastric emptying scan, MUGA, stress thallium/persantine/sestimibi test, renal flow scan, tagged red cell/bleeding scan, tagged white cell scan, liver-spleen scan, renal GFR scans.

STAT FILMS

Call 5-6126 and place the order in Ordernet. Finding the film after it has been taken becomes difficult on occasion, especially at night. The film will be taken by the tech to be developed on the 7^th floor or in Tower, and then will be taken by another tech to the Emergency Department Basement to be read by the ER Censor at some point in the night. Then, the film will be taken from the ER to Central on the 1^st Floor.

MRI

5-4100. Call to schedule. Speak to a radiologist if you feel a scan is urgent and needs to be done that day. Many patients will require at least p.o. sedation, to be given before the patient leaves the floor. If necessary, the patient may require IV sedation, for which there is a set number of sedation time slots per week. However, if these are booked and you need a MRI right away, you may need to administer the sedation yourself and then follow the “conscious sedation” protocol with physician and nurse monitoring (i.e., you’re going for the ride, too).

ECHOCARDIOGRAMS

Order Transthoracic echocardiograms through ordernet on ordernet floors. If you are on a non-ordernet floor fill out the pink requisition and call 5-3231. Echo results can be obtained from the Echo lab on Blalock 5 where cardiology fellows will review an Echo with you. TEEs need to be ordered through ordernet and called in.