Problems Encountered By The Procedures of Barium in Khartoum State Hospitals

Abstract

Gastrointestinal system disorders are fairly common throughout the world. There is no doubt that barium studies are important investigations for detecting the gastrointestinal tract disorders. This examination is performed by use barium sulphate as contrast medium. The aim of this study is to discover certain problems in the application of this important investigations, in Khartoum region hospitals. For example: it is performed in some hospitals without screening, this has an effect on the efficiency of the examination. The type of Ba used as a contrast medium in Sudan is not the best quality and there for, it affects the image quality .This is a prospective study with selected 25 patients. The study is conducted at the military base hospital, Ibn sina teaching hospital, Khartoum teaching hospital And Khartoum north teaching hospital. The data was obtained by the practical investigations and questionnaire. From this study image quality is essential for enabling accurate diagnosis and proper treatment. The study reveals that 72% of the X-ray technologists reported that the image quality is good, while 28% reported that it is bad, because the fluoroscopic unit it is not used in their hospitals. This affects the image quality severely .However fluoroscopic unit, regarding these results, is proved to be superior and hence it is considered as a technique of choice. Expert technologists and advanced recent fluoroscopic units are recommended in order to achieve nearly 100% accuracy and conventional x-ray machine is kept for other investigations