Problems With Transvaginal Ultrasound

Child is a gift from God. Every parent hopes for a healthy child. However, abnormalities in the fetus growth becoming common nowadays. These may be due to physical, radiation and chemical factors. These factors will cause deformities such as genetic mutation which causes mental retardation, abnormal body buildup and other conditions which bring a lot of troubles in the future to the child themselves and their parents. Modern technologies and innovations in the medical field had developed a method to detect the abnormality before delivery and prevent this future tragedy to happen. This method is known as prenatal screening. There are several advantages and disadvantages of prenatal screening.

Christine Le, an accountant living in Flushing, New York, gave birth to a healthy baby “Nathan” on January 29th, 2010. She found out that she was pregnant with her first child when her period was late. She had the routine prenatal care starting at 12 weeks and delivered at 40 weeks in a hospital with the present of her husband, Robert, and the in-laws. To insure her baby was healthy, Christine underwent several prenatal diagnostic methods like amniocentesis to examine for genetic defects. Another method was ultrasound; its purpose is to assess fetal age, multiple pregnancies, size and shape of the fetus. Christine underwent numerous lab tests to ensure that there are no complications (Berk, pg.43). Lab tests like a complete blood count that screens

Prenatal testing includes screening and diagnostic testing that can provide valuable information to parents about the baby’s health. “Women are routinely offered a variety of genetic screening tests during their first three months of pregnancy to evaluate the risk for genetic disorders in their unborn baby” (livescience.com). I believe prenatal testing and counseling should not be mandatory and that each person needs to make their own decision based on their specific circumstances. Many prenatal tests are noninvasive and only require blood or urine and can test for HIV, anemia, diabetes, hepatitis B and preeclampsia. An ultrasound can also be used to detect some abnormalities with the baby. Doctors may strongly recommend that women who

Imagine being one of the first person to see the smile on a couple’s face when they find out the gender of their unborn child, or even hearing its heart beat for the first time. A Prenatal Sonography technician or also an Ultrasound technician is a person who uses machines that send out high ultrasound waves to view images. Prenatal Sonographers use these machines to specifically view images of a females’ reproductive system and also an unborn child. The waves that are sent out produce an echo that is then converted into photo images to see the placenta, ovaries, the amniotic sac and even the fetus.

In Improvements in Prenatal Genetic Testing Raise Ethnic Issues, R. J. Crayton produced an article about prenatal testing and whether or not parents should be allowed to have these tests done. First the situation of a high risk baby who will have a disability or defect after birth, so the parents decide to abort the child is being viewed as an inequality to the disabled community. Secondly, certain adoptions are put on hold since the biological parents chose to not carry the unborn child through the entire pregnancy, however, the surrogate mother wants to carry the child through the entire term. Lastly, research shows that the results can be a false positive, so unintentionally the parents decide not to keep the unknown, but healthy baby.

Catherine Mill argues that obstetric ultrasound has some impacts upon the embodied experience of pregnancy. For her, Ultrasound does not simply represent an already existing body, but actually constitutes the foetus as an embodied, social being. The basic question whether abortion is morally right or wrong enters into another domain through an analysis of biopolitics of reproduction. The routine use of ultrasound in obstetrics has its impact on the intuitions about the moral status of the foetus. ultrasound plays a significant role in the circulation and realization of norms in reproduction by establishing and shaping embodiment and thereby constitute social and ethical relationships. Ultrasound imaging allows the bodily life of the foetus

Modern medicine continues to bring new technology to its patients and is steering in the direction of “Science Fiction” in some areas. Every individual has to decide if prenatal testing “works” for them, if the result is worth the risk of induced stress, miscarriage and/or fetal limb abnormalities. Psalm 127:3 in the Bible says, “Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a

Technology on Prenatal screening might has helped to determine the health of the fetus before it's born but it has caused the legal and bioethical issues. It should be looked upon how fast the technology is advancing because without it there would be less abortion since no one would be seeking medical diagnosis.

Are there any diagnostic studies that should be ordered on this patient and discuss why? A thorough history and physical examination in addition to lab tests and imaging are crucial in making tubo-ovarian abscess diagnosis. A transvaginal ultrasound (US) is commonly utilized imaging and shows a complex adnexal structure with thick walls and internal echoes likely pus with cellular debris, a CBC may indicate elevated leukocyte count (Velcani, Conklin, & Specht, 2010). Other test that may be done to rule out other conditions such as urinalysis for UTI, Genital swab for STIs (gonorrhea, chlamydia), and urine hCG for ectopic pregnancy.

The article, “Transvaginal Sonography: perception and attitude of Nigerian women” was written to express the results and findings of an experiment. Wanting to gain information on how these women perceived transvaginal sonography (TVS), they conducted this experiment in Nigeria that involved 255 women that gave consent to receive a TVS by certified sonographers (Okeji et al., 2017). They wanted to receive feedback from the women after receiving the TVS to conclude their overall pain level and experience during the procedure. What they found was that most women did not find it painful nor awkward and would receive another in the future (Okeji et al., 2017). They also found that the more education these women had received in their life time,

□ Used when findings on hysterosalpingosonogram are concerning for intrauterine lesions that would need to be addressed.

Transvaginal sonography revealed a single gestational sac with yolk sac with fetal node which on midline sagittal view appeared to be present at the previous caesarean section scar. Uterine cavity was empty. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was done to confirm the diagnosis. Both sagittal and transverse T1- and T2-weighted MRI sequences clearly showed the gestational sac embedded in the anterior lower

Is prenatal diagnosis, newborn screening, carrier testing or mutation testing available? Are they used widely? What arguments are there for and against the use of these tests?

Since the 1970s electronic fetal monitoring has grown to be the single most prevalent obstetrical intervention, used in over 85 percent of hospital births as of 2010 (ACOG Practice Bulletin 132). Electronic fetal monitoring is intended to detect abnormalities in

The next technique routinely performed for prenatal diagnosis is amniocentesis. A long needle is inserted into the mother’s uterus to withdraw a sample of amniotic fluid containing cells shed by the fetus. The cells are cultured and analyzed for chromosome abnormalities. Despite the lengthy time in obtaining results because the cells need to be cultured, this method has become widely accepted as a safe and accurate way to determine genetic disorders.