Surgical technologist

Throughout high school I was clueless what career to choose. I realized that many of my acquaintances were pregnant or had children already. Everyone also talked about how different aged women were pregnant. I started thinking about the amount of pregnant women having to see a Sonographer and in the future how babies will still be born, so my career will be beneficial. That is when I started to have ideas of being a Sonographer, but I still wasn’t sure. My sister found out she was pregnant in…

degree caudad angle of the tube is necessary to distort the coccyx just enough to obtain the image we need. Another way that shape distortion of an image can be beneficial to the radiographer, would be in certain trauma cases. When a radiologic technologist receives a patient severely injured, precautions must be taken. The patient’s safety is our top priority no matter what, and we must try our best to not further injure them in the process of finding out their injury. With that being said,…

A calm voice emanates from a member of what the man can only assume is some kind of surgical team, “Are we ready?” The other man struggles in vain, his face and neck are flush, his veins protrude from his skin, his hands are blotches of purple and white as he fights against the manacles. The man feels his arms straining against his own restraints as he watches the baby-blue clad beings with their surgical masks and hair bonnets surround the other man. Each methodically places sterile nitrile…

A technologist allows the doctor to view an area of interest in a clear and concise way so the doctor can make an accurate diagnosis and devise an appropriate plan of care. If the technologist does not do their job correctly, it has a negative impact on the patient as well as all of the staff involved with that patient’s care. However, the duties of the technologist do not stop at taking quality x rays. The technologist can be involved with many more procedures…

From the second grade I thought I wanted to be a Veterinarian when I grew up. Of course no one would expect a second grader to know such details, but as I went through high school my mind never strayed away from my future goal. Senior year I got the opportunity to intern at Big Goose Veterinary Clinic where I fell in love with the practice even more. I scrubbed in on surgerys, interacted with clients, and cuddled up on animals all day. It was not until I started noticing how exhausted the…

x-rays are preformed regularly. A radiologic technologist, also known as radiographers, are the individuals who perform this specific task. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the basic duty for a radiologic technologist is preform diagnostic imaging examinations, like x-rays, on patients. Radiologic Technologists use radiation energy to capture images of the human anatomy (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,2015). To become a radiologic technologist, one much apply for a program. In…

Total Hip Replacement Hip arthroplasty is using a prosthesis to replace hip joint is one of the most common surgical procedures today (Walker, 2007). A good surgical team will increase the success rate of the total hip replacement. However, proper nursing interventions during pre-operative and post-operative phase of the surgery is very important for the patient. Nurses spend more time with patients compared to the other health care personnel. Therefore, a good nursing care will better…

be cheap” Newton Medical Center Obstetrics doctor, Kent Bradley said in an interview (Bradley). If they do become cheaper, they will be more available to smaller hospitals (Bradley). Newton Medical Center was the fifth hospital to get the Da Vinci Surgical System due to being well managed (Bradley). How are robots changing your job? To answer that question, he used the scenario “The Da Vinci is a tool in my toolbox” (Bradley). “It is a new tool to use…

perform procedures that are complex by allowing more precision, flexibility and control to happen then the traditional techniques used. Dr. Catherine Mohr, who spoke in the video is the vice president at the company, Intuitive Surgical in the medical research field that makes surgical robots ("Catherine Mohr | Medical Technology"). The main point of Dr. Mohr’s argument is that the inventions of technology used in surgeries are changing for the better. Dr. Mohr wants to inform us about the…

surgery in the country was performed, which marks a milestone for biotechnology nationwide in Kazakhstan. New information has also been released on the number of robotic surgeon models are active in NHS hospitals in the UK. To be fair, PCI is a non-surgical procedure; doctors go through the bloodstream via either the forearm or the groin to widen coronary arteries that are otherwise constricting. It’s…