• G Federolf, P Syré, F Groß-Alltag, H Wiedeck, C Bader, and W Friesdorf.
• ATV Section, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
• Technol Health Care. 1994 Jan 1;2(2):141-6.

AbstractBed chest X-rays carried out in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are an important means of patient monitoring. To get the starting points for standardization of the documentation of X-ray findings, we examined course and contents of the daily X-ray conference in an ICU. We video-taped the conferences and registered its vocabulary.Mean entire duration to comment on the X-rays of one patient was 150 s. On an average, discussion between radiologist and anaesthetist lasted 40 s, dictation of findings 50 s. Sorting and viewing the X-rays took 60 s. Main disruptions were related to non-availability of X-rays and clinical patient data. Clinical information reported during the discussion is rarely mentioned in the dictated findings.

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