Who performs and reads a venous ultrasound?

A consent form or order for an ultrasound may name no one, and the question of who does what is fair to ask of it. This desk found one sentence that assigns two roles.

Who does what according to the source

my.clevelandclinic.org writes: "Your ultrasound test will be performed by a registered, specially trained technologist and interpreted by a board-certified radiologist." The sentence splits the work in two. A technologist performs the test. A radiologist interprets it.

What the sentence leaves open

Those are two different people by the wording. The sentence gives no names and does not say whether the radiologist is in the building. It does not say who sends the findings to your physician, or when.

The adjectives are also worth reading. "Registered" and "specially trained" describe the technologist, and "board-certified" describes the radiologist. The sentence does not say who verifies those credentials for a given office.

What to ask before you book

Ask who will perform your exam and who will read it. Ask how the reading reaches the physician who ordered it. Ask whether you may see the report.

Background pages that explain terms your order may use: deep vein thrombosis, varicose veins and venous insufficiency, and chronic venous insufficiency.

What the paperwork cannot tell you

A job description cannot tell a reader in Oak Lawn what the images in their own legs show. That is a question for the radiologist's report and your physician.