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Is there a scoring system to assess adequacy of images acquired during the eFAST (extended Focussed Abdominal Sonography in Trauma) ultrasound scanning protocol?
What is your distinctive clinical approaches for the management of thyroid nodules of both 10-15 mm and over 15 mm, separately, with Category III of indeterminate cytology, TBSRTC, 1st and 2nd ed., harboring high-to-intermediate suspicion sonographic pattern, low clinical risk factors, repeated FNA cytology, molecular testing, or both, are not performed or inconclusive?
Dear Potential Participants,
For nearly a decade, I have been researching the use of bedside sonography in hemodynamic assessment of intravascular volume status (and related topics). Study logistics and getting enough critical mass at a single institution always have been my -- and probably your -- greatest limitation to collecting voluminous enough data for truly robust statistical analyses and comparisons.
Would there be interest "out there" to participate in an IRB-approved, centralized repository of standardized sonographic hemodynamic data in exchange for full access to collective data and authorship based on pre-defined criteria?
Examples of data to be collected/entered: IVC dimensions & collapsibility; Other central vein dimensions & collapsibility; Central venous pressures; Pulmonary artery catheter parameters (yes - this "dinosaur" is getting retired, but before it does, let's compare it to something we're going to use for the next 100+ years); Conventional vital signs; Ventilatory parameters (PEEP, Airway Pressures, etc).
Please let me know... Once a "coalition of the willing" is assembled, we can perhaps change and redefine the way our world views ultrasound in the ICU...
Cheers,
Stan.
Our experience in cardiovascular ischemic heart disease is very promising using TPA in carotid sonography for very large population!!!! Dont you think to use any cardiovascular subrrogate?
This method is easy, in 2d sonography, with very low variability in inter an intra observer variation!!
I recently register a clinical trial in patients with liver cirrhosis. One of the study variables is hepatic vein velocity. There are three hepatic vein and determine hepatic vein velocity is possible to all three veins and in different regions (i.e. proximal to ivc or distal or in sinusoids)
Which hepatic vein velocity is more reliable in cirrhotic patient for determine of hepatic vein velocity? Which section of vein is beter for determine this value?
In medical imaging we are using ultrasound for detecting abnormalities in unborn babies. Can we do same by USCT?
I'm looking for a joint ultrasound dataset, it can be knees, shoulders, feet, any kind of joint is ok. I have seen different musculoskeletal ultrasound images; however, nothing more than a few images.
Thanks.
Do you use sonography of jaw joint derangements ? If so do you recommend this as a diagnostic procedure . Kindly explain Norman
A 42 yrs old man with a mass in 4cm above anus , pathology : well differentiated adenocarcinoma , in clinical exam a hard node in groin that confirmed by sonography a a hi suspicious node. metastatic work up by CT scan is negative.what do you suggest
A 3o yrs pregnant woman " golden baby" with a mass in right breast, CNB result: invasive ductal carcinoma grade II ER + PR+ HER2+. No familial breast cancer history. sonography axial was negative.what is your plan.
I've read the abstract. How do you explain that US is less sensitive but more specific than MRI in local staging of rectal cancer? I agree in full about the need of specific training (this rule is always true!), although the differences in MRI performances seem less understandable.
In my clinical practice of diagnostic ultrasonography at different health institutes, at primary health care or community level, I have to perform ultrasound using different ultrasound machines from various manufacturers. These machines range from being very very basic to reasonably good one and , thus, have noticeable difference among the image quality obtained. I wish to know is there any method, scale, standard or criteria to measure the image quality produced by these machines objectively.
Are there any guidelines published by any authority detailing the minimum acceptable level of an ultrasound machine suitable for a given diagnostic work. Say on a scale from 0 to 10, with cut off of (suppose) 4 below which image quality is considered insufficient to provide the minimum information needed for that diagnostic study.
3D ultrasonography is a much talked thing now, but the equipment involved are is costly. Is there any software available which can convert 2D usg images to 3D?
I wish to do a Doppler scan of liquid and ferrofluid in a tube. How will it affect the output image in the given cases?
A recent trend is to request sonography of all patients seen by residents in the ED. Frequently sonography is the 1st investigation (pending the results of biochemical investigations). As can be expected, the indications are often loose. It become a challenge for a radiology resident to direct his attention towards a particular organ system. The entire sonographic examination (without any direction) becomes an exercise in vain, putting serious time constraints on sonographic examination of other patients with seemingly localised pathology.
What is your experience? Is it an institutional phenomenon or global problem?
I need to perform breast ultrasound, benign and malignant.
Does anyone know of research being done on elastography, done on the testes for general tissue properties and disease states rather than focal lesions? Does anyone know of a good reference on upto date info?
Analyzing interview data gathered during my doctoral research on advanced practice sonography, I saw distinct differences between the work of the staff sonographer, the advanced sonographer, and the interpreting physician. Yet many sonographers out in the field have conflicting opinions as to who does what in diagnostic medical sonography. Many would argue that the sonographer diagnoses the study. Some would claim this does not happen. I make the argument that the very act of performing a sonographic scan is an act of DIAGNOSIS. Do we as sonographers diagnose disease? Or do we stop at providing sonographic findings that physicians diagnose and interpret?
