Case Study: Ultrasound Issues

Dr. Fox is an emergency physician at UCI Medical Center, treating and diagnosing patients using an ultrasound. His scope of research involves looking at patients’ internal organs via ultrasound, which is much quicker and less harmful than using x-ray scans that are traditionally used in emergency departments. He is also a part of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (“Faculty and Staff”). Dr. Fox is also a director of instructional ultrasound and is the assistant dean at the UCI School of Medicine (“John Christian Fox”). He started an ultrasound rotation at the UCI School of Medicine, and with a grant given by SonoSite, Inc., the ultrasound curriculum is now embedded within the UCI School of Medicine curriculum (“Faculty and Staff”). He went to Tufts University School of Medicine, receiving his MD in 1997 (“John Christian Fox”). His main research focus is to try to incorporate ultrasound more into the emergency department, and tries to find revolutionary ways to utilize ultrasound, especially because it is very cost-efficient and images are seen real-time, unlike MRI scans or x-rays, which can emit harmful radiation or results take much longer to acquire. Eric Viquez is one of the Bio 199/EMRAP (Emergency Medicine Research Associates Program) students in Dr. Fox’s ultrasound lab. He is currently a 4th year undergraduate biological sciences major who is going to medical school in the fall; he shadows shifts with Dr. Fox and

Ultrasound, or sonography, is a painless way to take pictures of the inside of a patient’s body using sound waves. Ultrasound Technicians operate machines which is called a sonographic scanner. The scanners create pictures of internal organs. There are many different fields of sonography. There is cardiovascular which works with the heart. Abdominal works with the spleen liver and urinary system. Obstetric works with the female's reproductive system. Breast is where you look for abnormalities or cancer in women’s and sometimes men’s breast. Musculoskeletal is where you look at tissues and joints. Neurosonology is working with the brain.

High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound, HIFU, is rapidly becoming a growing prostate treatment. Because the area affected by the prostate cancer is targeted, the temperature can heat up quickly, which burns and destroys the cancer cells.

Sofia is a 30yo, G4 P2012, who was seen for a follow-up ultrasound assessment. She has GDM and is on metformin 500 mg t.i.d. She also does have some issues with depression and is on trazadone. Currently at this time she overall has no complaints and has positive fetal movement.

Pregnancy is a beautiful time in a woman’s life. A mother waits nine long months to meet their bundle of joy they created with their partner. A mother can feel their belly grow, the baby move, and can even feel tiny sensations like hiccups. What a mother can’t do is actually see their little bundle of joy without having an ultrasound preformed. This paper will go over a brief history of obstetric ultrasound along with a slight explanation of why they are performed and include the benefits along with the possible risks of the procedure.

Having children is something everyone should do at least once and being surprised is what I like about it. It is one of life’s greatest miracles, I just knew I had a boy, but I got a surprise. Our first child we did not want to know, but our second child my wife talked me into it. It was a girl too. It was also right, but there are legitimate reasons not to find out. One is, the ultrasound is not always right. In some cases, the family gets a big surprise if the gender is wrong. The timing must be right, which is about twelve weeks at the earliest (Milbrand, 2018). The ultrasound is about 90% effective (Kounang, 2015). Another is the insurance doesn’t pay. But there are also good reasons for doing an ultrasound. Detecting abnormalities, fetal position, and

Today was a joyous day. A happy day, a wonderful day. At least for one doctor it was. He was happily bouncing in his seat within his office as he spun in a circle within his chair. his dual colored hair bouncing slightly as he giggled at the excitement. Today was Ultrasound day for all the mothers under the care of the facility. And it was one of the days that Luca looks forward to every month. His excitement was obvious to anyone who had worked with him in the past ten years. The childish doctor was so fond of seeing the unborn children and the expression of what their parents thought about such life growing inside them.

Ultrasounds can work because they're made from sound waves. The sound waves produce an image. Sound waves go through your skin and focus on a certain part of your your body. There’s a scanning device that helps you focus on the body part, its called a “Transducer”. A transducer is a hand held small device that sends and receives signals from ultrasounds. A transducer changes impulses into sound waves.

As part of the Professional Discovery course I got the opportunity to be matched and placed in Dr. Salems lab to do research. The main objective and initial step of the project is to determine the optimal particle size that can cause higher levels of cancer cell death through a combination of ultrasound application and doxorubicin liberation. The beginning of the project consisted of a training process in which I got the opportunity to practice and reinforced my lab techniques such as proper pipetting, weighting, as well practiced some math dilution calculations. Afterwards, as part of the team I was able to learn how to prepare nanoparticles and how to qualitatively determine if the particles that were treated with the ultrasound waves actually ruptured into smaller fragments, as this will be indicative that the actual drug is then being liberated from the particles.

Today, I overheard some terrible news I was going to be looked at through an ultrasound, seems very strange that they didn’t ask if it was ok with me first considering they are checking me out! Yeah, I know a total breach of my privacy and they couldn’t have the decency to check if I was alright with it. I also strangely recall them mentioning about how I was an ovum and that I came from something called an ovary before sliding through the oviduct only to land in the uterus which is something I still can’t understand why I am here. They told my mom that I had been fertilized and was now an embryo after they tried for almost an hour to explain to her what I use to be something called a zygote sadly she still doesn’t understand because she didn’t listen in science or health class when she was in school. I can already tell the horrors await as they start to prep her for the ultrasound.

Did you know that ultrasounds were first used to detect problems in ships? Now they are used to help unborn and expecting mothers. Imagine seeing your daughter or son on a screen, as you await their birth to come. The Journey of life is amazing both in and out of the womb. Throughout the years technology has changed in so many ways. Now we give birth in a hospital and have technology to help us through the process. When 100 years ago, women gave birth in their own home. Ultrasounds now help expecting mothers more than ever and technology help your unborn child, throughout the whole process. Even ultrasounds have been improved, and technology has improved in the nursery. As technology changes so do we,lets see how it's changed in just the past

I felt excited every week because I like hand on experience on patient at same I know that I gain my knowledge through clinical. Every unique clinical experience, every particular lab, and every clinical simulation help me. I watched a mammogram, ultrasound, and CT scans as usually. I like to watch more in mammogram and CT than ultrasound because ultrasound it is completing and hard to understand. Now that I know I take every x-ray exam and even take the patient to their room when the tech was busy. One time I was taking chest XR on hyper asthenic patient, and first I raise the tube in order to some light on the shoulder. Since the patient board chest, I cut off the costphrenic angle, then I take another cassette crosswise to get the rest of

Ultrasound is acoustic energy with a frequency at about 20kHz which is above the capability of human hearing. It is more commonly used in the medical field than food industry. In the medical field, the most significant usage of ultrasound is in sonographic scanners. As these scanners work at 2-18MHz, it produces smaller wavelength which is able to make sonogram of smaller details. As such, ultrasound sound based imaging technique is used to visualize body structures and tissues (Carovac, Smajlovic, & Junuzovic, 2011). Ultrasound contributes to the food industry via its acoustic cavitation in food and dairy processing. For example, extraction using ultrasound technology has shown to increase yield of high value food ingredients while emulsification produces food emulsions with smaller droplet size (Chandrapala, Oliver, Kentish, & Ashokkumar, 2012). In the dairy industry, ultrasound was proved to enhance heat stability of dairy proteins and is used to separate fat from milk (Grieser, 2015). Although most of the reported benefits of using ultrasound in food industry was done in the laboratory, major advances have been made in recent years to utilize ultrasound in commercial processes (Patist & Bates, 2008).

Therapeutic ultrasound divides into two classes, high power and low power. The high power therapy operates with intensity more than 5 W/cm2 and this area 's applications include lithotripsy and high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) [3] [4]. On the other hand, the low power intensity (0.125 -

Ultrasound treatment was done according to method by [21] with some modifications. Ultrasonic probe (JY92-IIN, Ningbo Scientz Biotechnology Co. Ltd, Ningbo, China) was used, with maximum power 1000Watt, frequency 25 kHz and probe diameter of 13mm. Pectin solutions were treated at 60% duty cycles, sonication times was fixed at 20 minutes, sonication power (200 and 400 watts). Effect of acidity on sonication was determined at pH 2, 4 and 6, by adjusting solution pH using acetic acid. Native pectin 0.25g was put in 250ml beaker suspended in 100ml deionized water to achieve low viscosity, it was stirred on a magnetic stirrer for 30 minutes, and sonic treatment was done by immersing sonic probe up to 1cm deep in the solution. After treatment, the suspension was precipitated with equal volume of 95%v/v ethanol to precipitate pectin. The content was centrifuged at 7500xg and filtrate removed. the precipitate was left in fume cupboard to remove ethanol traces then re-dissolved in deionized water and frozen at -45ᴼC and eventually freeze dried for further analysis. Ultrasound intensity was predicted according to the following equation