'DOES ANYONE KNOW -JUST OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD- WHAT HIDA STANDS FOR? WHAT IS IT? "

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A HIDA SCAN?

I'M using a friends computer and have to leave soon, so I don't have time to look it up... I am wondering what HIDA stands for so I CAN write it on consents - - - spell it out on consents......

Anyone had a HIDA scan??

Care to share your impressions? Your experience??

thanks in advance.

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Specializes in Critical Care/ICU.

It's a gallbladder scan.

Cholescintigraphy (HIDA Scan)

http://www.medicomm.net/Consumer%20Site/tp/tp_c6.htm

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Specializes in ER.

hepatobiliary iminodiacetic acid scan....and in a nutshell it is used to evaluate the function of your gallbladder and bile ducts..

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I must have been daydreamin!

Thanks a heap and thanks for the link................

You allnurses people are THE BEST !!

Someone gave me a lab link a couple of weeks ago in reply to a question i had , it has been very useful.

Is it me??? Or is nursing gettin more and more complex??

Where did the time go - - the shift ??

Not much time for nursing and nurturing the patient - - at least where I work.....

thanks again....

has anyone had one of these???

I'd like to hear from someone who had one.....

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Heck, I've never even HEARD of it! Maybe they call it something different here in Canada!

Welcome back, Passing thru. haven't seen you in AGES! :-)

(Are you passing thru again???? Or staying for a bit? LOL! ) :D

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Specializes in Pediatrics.
I must have been daydreamin!

Thanks a heap and thanks for the link................

You allnurses people are THE BEST !!

Someone gave me a lab link a couple of weeks ago in reply to a question i had , it has been very useful.

Is it me??? Or is nursing gettin more and more complex??

Where did the time go - - the shift ??

Not much time for nursing and nurturing the patient - - at least where I work.....

thanks again....

has anyone had one of these???

I'd like to hear from someone who had one.....

I had a HIDA scan ~2 yrs ago...from what I recall, I was NPO morning of, went in to radiology, they started an IV, I laid down, the nurse injected the hormone (can't spell it...cholecystekin?)...then we waited! My GB wouldn't contract as expected, they had me sip some H2O and it finally did its thing...while my mom and I watched it on the monitor. If I recall correctly,

It was ordered b/c ultrasound showed no gallstones but I was still having pain...

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