OTHER NAMES

• Ultrasounds
• Ultrasound scan exploration
• Exploration for ultrasounds

DEFINITION

The Ultrasound scan is a skill of medical diagnosis, in which the images form for the ultrasound use. The ultrasounds, on having crossed the different structures, they return "echoes" of different largeness as there are the crossed organs, generating images that allow to analyze his size, form, content, function, etc...

UTILITIES OF THE ULTRASOUND SCAN

It is used for the diagnosis and control of multiple illnesses or special situations:

Also there is used how he guides to drain abscesses (liquid collections in internal organs) or to realize biopsies. Only the presence of bone, air or extreme obesity interfere with his suitable use.

The ultrasound scan doppler is a special type of ultrasound scan, which adds the possibility of valuing the movement of the blood, by what it is used to study arteries, veins and the vascularización of the organs.

PREPARATION, INCONVENIENCES AND DANGERS OF THE ULTRASOUND SCAN

The ultrasound scan is painless, and it does not present any, enclosed danger during the pregnancy and the infancy. It can recur the necessary times without supposing danger for the health.

The previous preparation that he needs they will indicate it to themselves days earlier, but it changes very much according to the area to be studied. For example, in the ultrasound scan of the extremities one is not necessary previous preparation, while in the abdominal one it will have to come on an empty stomach and with the full bladder if it is possible. It is advisable to take comfortable clothes.

SKILL OF ACHIEVEMENT

The skill consists of placing a transducer or sounds that it generates the echoes on the skin (with a watery interface gel), and the images are visualized in a monitor. These images register for his later study, and so that steadfastness of the finds stays. In the gynecological or prostate study, the probe will interfere for the year or the vagina for the correct study of these organs.

TO SEE ALSO

• Radiography
• X-rays of Abdomen
• X-rays of Thorax
• Nuclear Magnetic resonance
• Scanner. TAC

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