...Solution to Musculoskeletal Injuries in Sonography Sonography, as a profession, is often enticing. When most individuals think of sonography, the thought that comes to mind is a sonogram with the pictures of a baby in gestation within a mother’s womb. Though this can be an interesting and rewarding career choice, this profession, as in most, can have its drawbacks. Many sonographers are at risk of suffering from musculoskeletal injuries and a significant amount are already experiencing injuries, especially those with considerable workloads and ones who have been in the profession for a large amount of time. In order to make sonography a safer profession, the work environment of sonographers must be redesigned with better ergonomics in mind. Having a safer ergonomic design must play an essential part of equipment design, along with changes to the layout of the work setting. Musculoskeletal Disorder also known as work-related musculoskeletal disorder (WRMSD) can include a number of symptoms ranging from swelling and inflammation of the muscles, spasms, tingling or burning sensations, to the loss of sensation completely (Coffin, 2014). In certain cases, a loss of muscle strength can occur. While this disorder is accumulative, the symptoms considered to be small can evolve to become more critical and also debilitating. Among North American sonographers in 1997, the occurrences of musculoskeletal injury were 84% and increased to 90% in 2008 (Coffin, 2014). According to the...
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...Medical sonographer creating a better tomorrow. Imagine having a baby, when sonography was not a thing. Not being able to determine if it was a male or a female, if the baby was in good conditions or having complications throughout the pregnancy. My grandma once told me a story of a girl who lived in her town when her mother was young. She told me that this girl was pregnant for almost 8 months and no one notices. The girl was so small and skinny that her tummy just looked like gaining weight. She herself did not know. The girl had a mischarged for not knowing about the pregnancy, a few months later she committed suicide. All of the could have of been prevented with more information. Medical sonography; will prevent that it will help everyone know what they must know, it could even save a life. Sonography has expanded new horizons in the medical field, not only with babies, but sonography is also used in many other situations. With the right training and hard work anything can be accomplished. Medical sonography does not only involve sonograms for pregnant women, used to also check joints, muscles and tendons. Making a better day for someone else by helping them, is already making a better tomorrow. On the road of running the career of medical sonography. Sonographers have to view the job responsibilities, salary, educational requirements, and job advancements when studying and dedicating their knowledge and time to medical sonography. The job responsibilities of a medical...
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...Diagnostic Medical Sonographers “Its a great experience. Everytime i see the belly getting bigger, and i see the sonogram and i hear his heartbeat, i'm like “oh man”(“Jencarlos Canela”). Explaining how great and exciting it is to be a diagnostic medical sonographer. Talking about seeing how fast the baby is growing and how well the heartbeat is beating. Being a Diagnostic Medical Sonographer provides one with a solid salary and benefits, the satisfaction of benefiting society, and the advantages of career experiences. Not only sonogram technician occupations provides one with a solid salary, it also gives manageable working hours. Working hours with this career might not have many supporters but when someone that loves to help people and enjoys the work environment, it will be one amazing career choice. Diagnostic Medical Sonography businesses are open 24 hours, 7 days of the week. this includes night shifts as well as day shifts. The payment in this medical field is very solid and well paid. One that is paid $26.02 an hour is very agreeable. A yearly pay is estimated around $60.350 which is more than typical careers. Jobs like these need employees from the growth of the business. (“Diagnostic Medical Sonographers and Cardiovascular technologists and technicians, including vascular technologists; Occupational Outlook Handbook”) Persuading in this career benefits society in many different ways. One benefit in this career is one helping to check if the baby is okay. This includes...
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...Medical Imaging Problem Set Intro to Biomed Anna Ylitalo Due: Nov 28, 2011 1. Digital cameras can be used as a medical imaging tool in dermatology. Often times it is not easy for the patient to travel to the dermatologist for checkups, so a simple picture of the affected skin can be sent to the dermatologist for review of progress. 2. The right temporal side of the head is approximately (1.5 mm/µs)(45µs)=67.5 mm from the left temporal side of the brain. If a space-occupying lesion is on the left side of the brain, there will be a jump in amplitude where the lesion occurs, something like: 3. Ultrasonic B-scans are used to create 2-D cross sectional images of the structure of interest. A solid ball would create merely a filled in circle; a tennis ball filled with air would create an image of a outer rim with empty space inside, as shown below: 4. The three controls that a technician uses on an x-ray machine are the voltage adjustment, mA control and the exposure timer. The voltage adjustment is used to control the penetrating power of the beam. A greater penetrating power will decrease the contrast of the image. The mA control is used to determine the current which flows through the filament in the cathode. This changes the number of photons produced, which affects the blackness of the image. Finally, the exposure timer is combined with the mA control to manipulate the darkness of the image. 5. Grids improve the image sharpness when a relatively thick body part...
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...Informed Consent for Diagnostic Medical Sonography Patient Name: ____________________________________ D.O.B.:______________________ Proposed Mode of Treatment: I, ______________________, hereby give Harper Medical Imaging permission to perform an ultrasound which has been requested by my physician. I understand that I may receive either a standard, extensive or vaginal sonogram which are done with sound waves from the ultrasound probe that bounce off the uterus and the developing baby producing echo which the computer then converts to images. Reason for treatment: I understand the following: A standard sonogram will provide information concerning the location, fetal position, twin pregnancies, gestational age and/or the possibility of malformation. A extensive sonogram will provide the same information as the standard scan plus a more detailed evaluation of the fetal’s growth and/or abnormalities. A vaginal sonogram is an instrument about the width of a tampon which is inserted into the vaginal canal. This type of sonogram provides very detailed views of the uterus, ovaries, or portions of the fetus that are low in the pelvis. It may also be done to see the heartbeat, the location of a very early pregnancy or to evaluate the placenta or birth canal. Such as the other ultrasounds, the vaginal ultrasound procedures are just as safe. It is normally less uncomfortable than pap smears. Risks involved: Diagnostic ultrasound has been used for pregnancies...
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...Summary Paper Simulation Results University of Phoenix HCS 405 Health Care Financial Accounting Marqueita Boyd June, 28, 2015 The simulation project was a very interesting and informative project. I learned many different things about the way things are ran around a healthcare facility. There is a lot more to running a health care facility than just caring for the patients. Behind the scenes there are many other issues that come up on a regular basis that need quick attention and the right decisions to be made. In the simulation I had to know I wouldn’t make the perfect decision the first time around, but it was a great experience. First I had to makes a decision to handle a cash flow problem at Elijah Heart Center. I had to make sure it slightly affected the facility it wasn’t the best decision. Reducing the agency staff was a good decision because it would reduce cost without it affecting any revenue. This would help EHC save on management fees and the premiums they pay to the agencies. However deciding to reduce the length of stay was not such a great decision. This would only have a limited gain because there is no significant cost savings by implementing this strategy and the revenues will remain the same on the scale throughout the year. As far on the loan option to support my decisions I chose the first one which was the best option. There may be more interest paid on this loan, but it can be paid back anytime where in...
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...Just like any other disease, pancreatic cancer must be diagnosed by a physician by doing certain tests and procedures to make sure they are diagnosed correctly. Most patients initially go to the doctor with common symptoms that may turn out to be any number of diseases that a physician has come to educate themselves about. An initial physical exam is usually followed up with things such as blood tests, x-rays or an ultrasound. If the physician were to determine that things did not look normal in one or all of these tests, a CT or computed tomography scan will be ordered. Abnormalties on a CT scan will be followed up with a biopsy to make sure a proper diagnosis is made. There is a certain blood test that can be done to help diagnose a patient with pancreatic cancer. It is called the “tumor marker” test and is also often referred to as CA 19-9. This marker is usually found in the blood of those patients with pancreatic cancer, but can also be found in patients without pancreatic cancer and those with benign conditions. This is not always a definitive way to diagnose pancreatic cancer, as the blood levels in some patients can be normal when they do in fact have pancreatic cancer. A biopsy consists of tissue that is taken from the body so that a pathologist can look at it closely. Abnormal tissues in the body may be referred to as lesions, tumors or masses. To obtain a biopsy of abnormal cells that may be on or around the pancreas, an invasive procedure would have to be done...
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...Title: Get a Specific Glimpse of Your Baby with 20 Week Anatomy Scan This detailed anatomy scan here also known as the 20-week or mid-pregnancy scan is typically completed when you're 18 to 20 weeks pregnant. In a few regions, it might be done after 21 weeks. Nowadays, it's basically regular for ladies in their second trimester to be planned for a level 2 ultrasound. That is on the grounds that specialists have discovered that this specific pregnancy ultrasound is an incredible method to perceive how an embryo is developing and assures that everything is going precisely the way it ought to be. The 20-week scan is done similarly as the dating examine. It creates a 2-dimensional (2D) black and white picture that gives just a side prospect of the infant. The NHS screening program doesn't utilize color or 3D picture. How is a level 2 ultrasound done? You may need to drink water before your scanning procedure so you'll have a full bladder, which makes it less demanding to take ultrasound pictures. You'll lean back on an exam table with your belly uncovered. A sonographer will apply gel and afterward move a wand called transducer over your tummy. As sound waves transmitted from the transducer jump off fluids and organs inside, a computer changes over them into a cross-sectional view of the baby on a screen. What does the scan search for? The 20-week anatomy scan views some physical abnormalities in the fetus. The scan searches for these issues and can't discover everything that may...
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...MGMT 404 week 3 O*Net Research Center 1. The occupation I was looking for was an Ultrasound technician. Ultrasound tech. was the second occupation that came up during my search. I think the information was comprehensive. The site gave specific information like salaries by state. I really liked the salary break down. The list of tasks is very close to what the ultrasound techs do at my office. They have to submit a report after every ultrasound that they complete. They also have to decide what images they are going to include in the clients portfolio. Before an ultrasound can began, the ultrasound tech. has to review the patient’s record to see if they are having a normal or abnormal pregnancy. Apart of the ultrasound tech. job is to understand the past problems that the client has had. The tools and technology used are also the same. In order to do an ultrasound the tech needs a machine, probe and the correct software. There is a great deal of knowledge that is needed to operate an ultrasound machine. Education, customer service, and physics are all things that an ultrasound tech. must have. The skills needed to work as a tech are speaking, active listening, monitoring, time management, operation monitoring. At my office we do fetal ultrasounds and it is important for the ultrasound techs to monitor the settings on the machine so they don’t become harmful to the unborn baby and mother. 2. I was surprised at the choices that O*Net chose for me. Anesthesiologists were...
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...Elijah Heart Center Financial Review Elijah Heart Center is encountering a financial cash flow hardship, which is familiar for specialized health care businesses. This is a complex situation, which will require a number of strategies to assist in minimizing cost while increasing revenue and patient care, obtaining the newest technology, and expanding the facility without going further into the red. With this review, there will be decisions and measures implemented to improve the declining cash flow distress. There will be a three part review; cost cutting measures that will have minimum impact on the patients, improve the inventory of equipment, and the appropriate choice to expand. The initial requirement in this situation is to save the organization $900.00 for the first year and improving the cash flow problem immediately, while waiting to receive $2,300,000.00 from Medicare and other organizations. There are a number of cost cutting options, but depending on the combination chosen it can have a severe effect on the patients and organization. The options included downsizing (permanent) staff, changing the skill mix and a few areas (benefits, agency staff, and length-of-stay) of reduction. Therefore, as the individual in charge to make these decisions, I have chosen to reducing agency staff and altering or changing the skill mix. This will slightly affect the patients and will help alleviate the cash flow difficulties, along with having an annual savings for the organization...
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...Marine World USA Heather Cruson ENG 221 8-15-2012 Timothy Resh Marine World USA Purpose Statement We intend to purchase 20 waterproof ultrasound machines series WX-5000 along with the below mentioned equipment for ten years to aid in finding cures for birth defects in fetuses and new born children. These machines will aid in discovering possible birth defects in ocean wildlife and finding cures for these defects. Introduction to the Company Welcome to Marine World USA. This company is responsible for locating pregnant ocean life forms and doing ultrasounds on them to determine if there will be any complications during delivery, how many are on board, any disorders or malfunctions that might be present, and the genders of the fetuses. Marine World USA locates pods, for example, and tries to find pregnant females to do ultrasounds on. These ultrasounds are a key in the reproduction life cycle to try to combat certain deformities that might occur in the fetus. The use of these ultrasounds helps scientists in determining any known disorders, and possible results of diseases, that might occur for the fetus. Our business goal is to help scientists in locating diseased specimens for research on cures for that species of animal. These cures, which are known for that species or location, will ultimately lead scientists into discovering if that species follows those same disorders for humans. Once this is established then scientists can start looking for cures of that...
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...Pancreas’ * Location * Size * Functions | 10 minutes | Question and Answer portion | Tina Sanders. The Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology, 5th edition. Taiwan. F.A. Davis Company. ©2003. | The students are evaluated by actively participating in the discussion. | * Learn about Pancreatic Tumor | * The Pancreatic tumor: * Definition * Etiology * Signs and symptoms | 30 minutes | Discussion proper | * Brenda G. Bare, et. al., Medical – Surgical Nursing, Volume 1. 12th edition. Wolters Kluwer Health, Lippincott William & Wilkins. * http://www.pancreatic-tumors.com/ | | * Identify the following diagnostic test involved. | * Liver function test * Pancreatic biopsy * Computed tomography and Ultrasonography | 20 minutes | Question and Answer portion | * Brenda G. Bare, et. al., Medical – Surgical Nursing, Volume 1. 12th edition. Wolters Kluwer Health, Lippincott William & Wilkins. | | * Determine the treatment needed. | * Pancreatectomy * Partial Pancreatectomy | 10 minutes | Discussion proper | * Brenda G. Bare, et. al., Medical – Surgical Nursing, Volume 1. 12th edition....
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...While the role of ultrasound in adult medicine continues to diminish in an era of faster and better MRI machines, its role in pediatric medicine continues to rise. The ability to image children without sedation, lack of radiation, higher resolution, better contrast and lower cost all contribute to the utility of this modality. With reimbursement changes, the pressure to utilize and maximize sonography will increase as insurance carriers and hospitals start sharing the cost of expensive modalities and workups. As the payers start collecting more data and holding care providers responsible for their utilization, the pressure will increase further. Because CT scans involve not insignificant amount of radiation and MRIs require sedation, ultrasound serves as a gateway modality that is used to screen patients before they go on to CT or MRI. Without perfecting sonography, it is difficult if not impossible to build a sizeable CT or MRI business especially in pediatric setting. In practice all three modalities have a complimentary role, though in practice most cases can be safely managed simply with single ultrasound or serial follow up ultrasounds to monitor a known disease process. It is no doubt that more innovations in acoustic imaging are being approved by the FDA and being rolled out in the community, allowing both radiologists and other clinicians in providing better care, faster, often at a cheaper cost. Having briefly touched upon the integral and increasing role of sonography...
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...Letter to Government Official ----------------------- The Honorable of , Re: Request for issuance of an official proclamation designating October 2011 as Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month. Dear : In an effort to increase the public’s knowledge about medical ultrasound and promote its value in health care, , in conjunction with the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (ARDMS), American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI), Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography (SDMS), and Society for Vascular Ultrasound (SVU), are sponsoring Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month in October 2011. The goal of Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month is to familiarize and educate the public about medical ultrasound through specially planned activities and educational materials. With ultrasound’s increasing role in medicine, there is a need for the general public to understand what ultrasound is and its many uses in health care. would appreciate your support by declaring October 1–31, 2011, as Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month in , helping us to educate the public about medical ultrasound and its important role in health care. We hope that you will recognize the need for this special month dedicated to medical ultrasound and encourage others to participate by issuing an official proclamation by . I have enclosed information about Medical Ultrasound...
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...Even though sonograms can help save a women’s life, a sonogram before an abortion is a violation of a women’s rights. Lawmakers are not responsible for making health decision for men or women. Health related decisions should be at the discretion of health care professionals. A bill requiring a woman to get an ultrasound before having an abortion is poised to pass Virginia’s legislature this week, placing it on track to be signed into law by Gov. Bob McDonnell ("Ultrasound Abortion Bill Nears Vote In Virginia", 2012). A sonogram before an abortion is a violation of women’s rights; women should have the right to say that she does not want a sonogram if a doctor does not deem one medically necessary. Women will no longer be able to exercise the right to control their bodies. The church and the state are telling women what is best for them, and religious entities' consistently trump individual women's right to live and work free from discrimination and in accordance with their own religious and moral beliefs. Health related choices should be at health care professionals. It has been common practice for doctors to preform ultra sounds on women who are having an abortion to determine the gestation age of a baby however; this has always been left up to the doctor’s discretion. Requiring an ultrasound may be an unnecessary procured that will do nothing but bring an added expense to the procedure. Because the bill did not go though requiring vagal ultra sounds before an abortion...
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