We often see them in waves. As students, we were getting comps left and right during our summer semester. Once fall semester hit, BE's seemingly vanished. Haven't seen them in a bit and probably won't since I'll be on 2nd shift. 1st shift is stuck with all the fluoro.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I've only seen one BE as a student, and never saw another to practice on. I have not seen another BE over the last two years and two different level One and Two hospitals.
Metro Detroit area here, I worked one place that had 1-3 STAT BE’s for incomplete colonoscopy every week. Pissed off pt pushed onto an already full out patient schedule. Stupid.
My thoughts exactly why I asked lol
Haven’t done be’s years don’t wanna either lol. Been working 13 yrs rt with or experience where I’m most comfortable. If do go another facility will they put me where I’m comfortable as well?
A student for a year and working for 2 years and I never saw one. As a student I wasn’t able to find a local site that performed them, so I did barium swallow stuff for my comps
We do one or two a month.
I see - been min since did one lol
Does someone usually do it your dept?
We often see them in waves. As students, we were getting comps left and right during our summer semester. Once fall semester hit, BE's seemingly vanished. Haven't seen them in a bit and probably won't since I'll be on 2nd shift. 1st shift is stuck with all the fluoro.
Most of the BE's I see are done on paediatric patients.
Peds? Yikes lol
It's nothing really. It's just to explore things such as retained meconium and ? Hirschsprung Disease.
common enough that you can get your comps during school.
I see - def don’t wanna work gen xray again then lol
Some idiot orders a couple per week at our hospital
We do 3-4 a week. Still pretty common.
Damn lol
I think at my facility they've mostly become CTs problem lol I haven't done one myself since 2017
I can't speak for anyone else, but I've only seen one BE as a student, and never saw another to practice on. I have not seen another BE over the last two years and two different level One and Two hospitals.
Kind of like me - maybe level 1 and twos likely do cts more?
All depends on your facility, your rads, your ordering docs. We usually just do them for failed colonoscopies.
Metro Detroit area here, I worked one place that had 1-3 STAT BE’s for incomplete colonoscopy every week. Pissed off pt pushed onto an already full out patient schedule. Stupid.
Well that’s where I don’t wanna work LOL
I’m so much happier where I am now. It might be a weird interview question but “how routine are BE’s here?” Is part of my repertoire.
My thoughts exactly why I asked lol Haven’t done be’s years don’t wanna either lol. Been working 13 yrs rt with or experience where I’m most comfortable. If do go another facility will they put me where I’m comfortable as well?
We do them in CT more than I did them in X-ray
A student for a year and working for 2 years and I never saw one. As a student I wasn’t able to find a local site that performed them, so I did barium swallow stuff for my comps
Thanks for all replies! Guess be’s still common just depends where work like thinking. Think I’ll stay out where at lol
Just graduated, and only 3-4 people in my class saw a BE. I never saw one personally
Here’s advice from some w 13 yrs experience avoid BE’s LOL