From Mitch Weigel: Hi All, Im looking for opinions on an experience I had today in interventional radiology exchanging our 13 month olds GJ tube. He had it placed initially in January and replaced in early April with MIC KEY. These were both done with a camera under general anesthesia. He has been having some issues and it was determined that the tube might be getting too small so we were to have it exchanged today in Interventional Radiology with no sedation. Supposed to be in and out in 5-10 minutes. We layer him on the table and turned on the X-Ray. The radiologist instantly recognized the J tube was coiled up in the stomach so he said change of plans as we now had to pull everything out and rewire. He had some problems getting through the pyloric sphincter so it took awhile. My sone was screaming the whole time of course as this procedure is usually done under general. My question/concern is the amount of radiation he was exposed to and whether it is a harmful dose. I plan on calling radiologist Monday to inquire as well. He was on the table for 1 hour. I think that it probably took longer than radiologist planned on. They were using what I think was live x-ray for guidance. The x-ray wasnt on the entire time but it was on a good amount of time. Perhaps about half of the time it was on. Does anyone have any experiences that are similar to mine or have any knowledge on this amount of radiation and whether or not it is too much? I do know that if we ever have this happen again that I will tell them to stop the procedure immediately once the coiled j tube is discovered and request an endoscopic procedure under general. Sorry for the long winded post.
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 18:49:42 +0000
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