...when it comes to knowing what all comes along with conceiving a child including all the ultrasound exams. Due to the lack of knowledge when a woman gets pregnant they end up choosing to go with a midwife electing out of ultrasounds due to safety concerns and personal beliefs. Although it is the families choice, ultrasounds should always be performed in order to check the well being of the unborn baby. History Ultrasound was initially used by boat men to detect flaws in ships while building them. In 1956, in Glasgow, Scotland ultrasound...
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...a patient has the condition. However, there can be complications. A patient with chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease who suddenly starts to see blood in their urine, develops a fever and has back pain should be investigated for the condition. Diagnosis Ultrasound Medical imaging is a way that helps doctors to be able to diagnose the condition by seeing what is happening in the body. Initially the medical team may opt for ultrasound. This is a non-invasive and safe form of imaging which will provide some indication of what is happening to the patient’s kidneys. Ultrasound creates an image from the way that sound waves bounce back...
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...Have you ever wondered what an ultrasound technician is and what they do? Many of us assume that they just do pregnancies, but they do much more. An ultrasound technician is someone who enjoys assisting others and is enthralled by the inner workings of the human body. Nowadays, as you still have the freedom to choose your sonography career path, becoming an ultrasound technician may offer a decent wage and exciting employment opportunities. How do you become an ultrasound technician? Becoming an ultrasound technician does not require a medical degree, and it is one of the least demanding jobs in the medical profession. if you want to begin your professional training to become an ultrasound tech. You must have a high school diploma (get your GED). Math, anatomy, and physiology are among the key courses covered in an associate's degree in sonography Graduating from...
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...What To Expect At A Kidney Ultrasound An Overview A kidney ultrasound is a non-invasive way to take images of your right and left kidneys. Unlike an x-ray, ultrasound technology doesn’t use radiation. Instead, it uses sounds waves that are undetectable by the human ears. The sound waves echo off the organs and create images, which allows your healthcare provider to see the size, shape, location, and, in some instances, the blood flow to your kidneys. Because kidney ultrasounds don’t emit radiation or use contrast dyes as part of the testing process, they are safe for children, pregnant women, and people who may have an allergy to dyes. Additionally, kidney ultrasounds don’t routinely require that you fast or prepare the bowel, which can be a necessity for other tests. Occasionally, your healthcare professional...
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...Thump Thump, The welcome of a new heart beat. It’s amazing how such a small heart can make tremendous noise. Even before a baby is born, a mother can get an idea of how her baby might look. It’s the highlight of an ultrasound. Ultra sounds are the best way to get a diagnose, they are non- harmful because they aren’t based on radiation. Instead ultrasounds rely on sound waves to get a clear image of the internal organs of a patient including soft tissues, blood vessels and also to observe developing fetuses in the womb. With that being said ultrasounds also have the benefit of being less expensive than many other imaging apparatuses such as, MRI or CT scan. Many people conclude that ultra sounds are only used on mothers to be but, the truth is that ultra sounds are also used for obstetric imaging, soft-tissue analysis, therapeutic treatment and dental treatment. Says radiologist (Dr. Joe Antony)....
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...Ultrasound Technicians, who are also known as diagnostic medical sonographers, play a very important role in our healthcare systems. Ultrasound Technicians use specialized equipment to capture pictures of the internal body structure. Ultrasound technology is commonly used to imaging organs, blood vessels, and fetuses during pregnancy. Technicians must be able to skillfully operate an ultrasound machine, take images, and need to be able to work with other healthcare professionals to accurately diagnose a patient. Preparation to become an Ultrasound Technician includes obtaining formal education, having personal skills, and being able to recognize and report things based on the scan results. Firstly, obtaining formal education is necessary for this job....
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...analysis is one of the most important and challenging problem, which can be determined by using Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) Cross Sectional images, which is an excellent ultrasound study system for extracting and to easily identifying the plaque layer by using the shape parameter measurements. This paper presents and elucidates the new approach to find out the coronary artery plaque with the help of the artery cross sectional layers determination, which are adventitia, media, intima and lumen layers. This system measures the layer’s performance to make the clear way to identifying the plaque layer, which proposes a new method...
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...Ultrasound For our project we researched ultrasound which is also commonly known as a Sonogram. The definition of ultrasound is energy that is generated by sound waves of 20,000 or greater vibrations per second. Ultrasound is used in many different arrays. It is most often used in the medical field. Ultrasound uses sound waves that are too high to be heard by the human ear. A part of the ultrasound machine called the transducer is placed on the body part and sound waves are emitted from the transducer and reflected back from organs and tissues. When the wave is sent back to the transducer it puts it into the computer which then measures the length of time it took for the wave to leave and come back and this is what makes up the pictures. Ultrasounds are used to look for many different things in the body from tumors to bones to examining an unborn baby. The history of Ultrasound doesn’t go back very far. Although ultrasound has been around since the first world war. It wasn’t until the 1940’s when it was first used for medical purposes. Two researchers are recognized in the history of ultrasound, Doctor Karl Theodore Dussik of Austria and Professor Ian Donald of Scotland. They were the first physicians to use ultrasound for medical purposes. Dussik first used ultrasound to find tumors in the brain and to look for the cerebral ventricals. He called his procedure hyperphonography. Donald wrote an article called Investigation of Abdominal Masses by Pulsed Ultrasound. That was...
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...BACKGROUND The research paper addresses the diagnosis of aneuploidy during the first trimester using Nuchal Translucency. The study was done in the fetal medicine unit in Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in South Africa. It included a total of 428 patients who were screened between July 2003 and July 2005. Those patients were chosen using a set of criteria that the Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF) has established. The patients had a mean age of 30 years. Of all the patients, 59 were screened positive and the remaining 356 were screened negative. 24 of those that screened positive had Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) performed. CVS is an invasive prenatal test that takes a sample of the chorionic villi to asses for chromosomal defects4. Therefore,...
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...Introduction This aim of this research review paper is to discuss the various types, causes and cost for medical errors. After reading this paper, the reader should be able to realize the importance of understanding the know how of medical errors and also understand how various interventions can be used effectively to prevent such errors. The paper also aims to stimulate critical thinking in terms of awareness about medical errors. I have worked in the critical care field for eight years in the past and have been a part of policy implementation with regards to medical errors. Most of the thoughts discussed in this paper are research-based, however, a few are from my personal and professional experiences working in the intensive care field. Causes of Medical Errors A. Diagnostic 1. Error or delay in diagnosis Failure to diagnose an ectopic pregnancy causing rupture and possible acute abdomen. The reason could be either because the obstetrician did not feel the need to order an ultrasound thinking the mild complain of pain to be insignificant to warrant an ultrasound or on the other hand, the radiologist fails to identify an ectopic pregnancy while performing an ultrasound, either due to incompetency or due to negligence. 2. Failure to employ indicated tests Failure to check blood glucose levels for a known hypertensive patient who presented with altered or loss of consciousness. Delayed checking of blood sugar was found to be 20mg/dl] 3. Use of outmoded tests...
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...the last one hundred years. It is one of the most important diagnostic tools available to doctors and has revolutionized the medical diagnosis of patients. The use of medical imaging has enabled doctors to see inside a patient without having to cut them open. Medical imaging, especially X-ray examinations and sonography which is also known to some as ultrasound, is essential in an everyday medical setting. Preventive medicine as well as healing medicine depends on the proper diagnosis and treatment by physicians, and the use of diagnostic imaging can help evaluate the course of a disease, as well as assess and document the disease in response to the treatment. Medical imaging has rapidly expanded from the first medical image discovered by Professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. During a late night experiment in November of 1895, Roentgen, a physics professor from Germany, was examining Crookes tubes. He noticed that some light had managed to pass through a tube that he had wrapped in thin black cardboard, reflecting on the wall of his dark laboratory. Upon further investigation he found that the light could also be passed through paper, books, and eventually through human flesh. Unintentionally, he had stumbled upon a very important discovery that led to the discovery of what we now call an X-ray. One of the very first x-rays was one that Roentgen made was of his wife’s hand. The flesh of the hand looked like a shadow, and around the finger bone the wedding band was visible and solid...
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...A background subtraction technique is presented in this paper that learns the variation of each pixel throughout the video in terms of differences of averages. And also the pixels colors of current frame with previous frame are learnt with average differences. Background subtraction differentiating foreground objects from the stationary parts of the scene is one of the modules of annotation. Valuable low level cue information is obtained by the module for performing high-level tasks of motion analysis, like motion estimation, tracking, etc. In recent research, 3D scene reconstruction and geometric model matching are the basis of perception where a 3D sample point cloud are used to match with the trained features. A semantic perception method...
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...Highlight on My Research Background Overview : Polymeric Composite has emerged as a new technology for innovation of new materials with low cost, high durability, more effectiveness, moreover reduction of environmental pollution. Leather industry is one of the highly environmental pollution creating industry. Solid wastes are being generated from the tanneries 88 metric tons/day on an average basis in my country, Bangladesh. In my research work I have attempted to reuse, recycle the leather waste. Moreover the aim is to reduce the environmental pollution. My research work was conducted to make bioapplicable materials from polyester resin reinforced with scrap leather fiber. The resulting polymer composite has been named “Leather Plastic”. One of the most important objectives of my research work is to use natural leather fiber which is biodegradable. So a definite amount of polyester resin could be replaced by natural fiber, which is very important to our environment. Manufacturing process: The composite was prepared by Wet Layup method. Leather fiber was treated with Unsaturated Polyester Resin and then fabricated and characterized. The matrix was prepared by mixing Unsaturated Polyester Resin with Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) solution. The grinded leather fiber was used as the reinforcement. After mixing the matrix with the reinforcement, peroxide was used as a radical initiator to induce polymerizations. After curing period the mechanical properties of the composite was characterized...
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...Ectopic Pregnancy: What is it, and how to take care of her physically and emotionally Amanda M Strock Samaritan School of Nursing This paper will cover the topic of ectopic pregnancy, causes, presentation, treatment and care of a patient with an ectopic pregnancy. What is ectopic pregnancy? An ectopic pregnancy is a dangerous pregnancy where the embryo implants in a cavity other than the uterus. This can occur on the ovary, the cervix, in the abdomen or most commonly in the fallopian tube. Between 95% and 98% of ectopic pregnancies develop in the fallopian tube. (McQueen) Ectopic pregnancies are not viable and can cause many complications such as infection, hemorrhage and infertility. In a normal pregnancy the egg is fertilized in the fallopian tube in which it then travels down the fallopian tube to the uterus where it implants and begins its growth. With most ectopic pregnancies, the egg is fertilized normally but then implants to the fallopian tube before reaching the uterus due to a restricted pathway in the fallopian tube. There are many possible causes to ectopic pregnancies and some causes are completely unknown. Research shows that due to the increase in Pelvic Inflammatory Disease there has been an increase in ectopic pregnancies. Other causes or risk factors...
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...Simulation Review Paper Vicky Davis HCS/405 September 12, 2011 Kristin McFarland Simulation Review Paper Financial Accounting from a Cardiac Care Hospital’s Perspective In 1975, the first hospital that was constructed in Kelsey is Patton-Fuller Community Hospital. They are most often dedicated to provide quality customer care; they specialize in programs that can maintain the health and welfare of the local community and other population. Patton-Fuller Health Care is a not-for-profit Community Hospital that services care such as emergency medical care, labor, delivery, physical therapy, radiology, cardiology, and surgery for all adults and children. In this paper I will be analyzing financial indicators for decision-making to understand the strengths and weaknesses of a Cardiac Care Hospital. In addition, I will be implementing strategies to improve the cash flow at Elijah Heart Center (EHC). At the same time, I will also be evaluating the funding options for obtaining medical equipment, and also the funding strategies for the success or failure of capital expansion (Apollo Group, 2011). On behalf of the summary and conclusion, I will need to explain what I learned from this simulation, what I would do differently if I performed the simulation over again, and following how I would apply what I have learned at my current or future job (Apollo Group, 2006). Phase I: Capital Shortage The board members at Elijah...
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