elementary school, I knew I wanted to be something in the medical field. I didn’t know what, but I knew that was the field I wanted to be in. I wanted to do something that would help other people. Now, as a sophomore, I have decided to be a Diagnostic Medical Sonographer or Ultrasound Technician. I like everything about the job and think it is a great choice for me. 3 Diagnostic medical sonographers have many responsibilities. “The diagnostic medical sonographer provides diagnostic ultrasound…
radiologist can see through the patient’s body without picking up a scalpel? And how he/she comments on minute details?’. It seems he/she is surpassing the surgeon’s role here. I enjoyed radiology rotation during my Internship and decided to pursue my medical career in Diagnostic Radiology and consequently completed my Radiology residency in a busy Government Hospital in India. Reporting every case in radiology makes me feel like solving enthralling puzzles, and I really enjoy my secret role as…
A pregnant woman needs her pregnancy to be monitored, so her doctor refers her to a diagnostic medical sonographer. Diagnostic medical sonographers also known as ultrasound technicians use specialized imaging equipment to produce images of a patient’s internal organs. Abdominal, breast, musculoskeletal, neurological, obstetric, and gynecologist sonographers are different types of ultrasound technicians. All sonographers place an ultrasound transducer on the part of the body that is being…
made ranging from new technologies, medical devices, organizations, and making the work environment of the sonographer a safer place. Joan Baker has played an important role in sonography, since she has created organizations, taught sonography ergonomics, and has an award given in her honor. Story Joan Baker was raised and got her education in England (About Us, 2016). She arrived to the United States 1965, because she got an invitation from Stanford Medical Center, to open the department of…
carcinoma. She recently diagnosed and she has been placed on Tamoxifen. She had a venous doppler study done in the private medical doctor's office which showed that she had a DVT of the right upper arm and therefore she was referred to the ER. Her private physician is Dr. Shiraz Yussaf and oncologist is Dr. McIntosh. Her medical conditions are hypertension. Venous ultrasonography revealed a somewhat elongated nonobstructing thrombus in the right internal jugular vein. The entire right…
ultrasound probe rests on the outside of the pelvis, this procedure involves the Sonographer inserting an ultrasound probe about two or three inches into the vaginal canal. [1] Ultrasonography is one of the key radiological investigative tools that have positively impacted on the quality of diagnosis and subsequent medical care over the years. Traditionally, ultrasonic imaging of the abdomen and pelvis is performed using the transabdominal transducers. The wide acceptance of this…
One of the medical conditions of the foot that affect an individual 's function is Morton 's neuroma (MN). MN initially identified by Queen Victoria 's surgeon ( Lewis Dulacher) in the year 1845. Dulacher (1845) recognized that MN is the formation of inflammation of the nerve affecting the distal plantar nerves (Dulacher,1945). Thomas Morton first described the clinical manifestation of MN in 1874 (Shishir & Wang, 2009). The signs and symptoms of MN are the pain in the proximal region of the…
the paper is to give the reader a closer examination of a variety of Medical Imaging modalities that are being used today. A short rundown is presented for Interventional Radiography, Nuclear Medicine, Mammography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ultrasound, and Radiation Therapy. Following is a more in-depth look at Computed Tomography that will give the reader a better comprehension of how it separates itself from other medical imaging specialties. Interventional radiology: The concept behind…
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Medical imaging is define as a techniques and processes used to produce the images of the entire or parts of the human body includes normal anatomy and physiology for clinical purposes. It includes a variety of modalities that gives focus to the needs of the patients. Among this are Ultrasonography (USG), Computed Tomography (CT), Computed Radiography (CR), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Dental Imaging,…
Today alone 18 people will die waiting for an organ transplant. Just one person can save up to eight lives by being donors. Medicine and medical procedures can no longer save the terminally ill. Assuming that the patient chooses to donate their body to science, they can help others live even in their death. The choice should always be the patients, whether they are choosing to donate their…