Written by Judith Buckland, MBA, RDCS, FASE
Unless you live under a rock, your life and routine has been affected someway due to COVID-19. Around the nation, we see closed schools, heart-breaking job loss, social distancing, and empty grocery shelves (what’s up with the toilet paper run!!). While many people worry about losing...
Written by Judith Buckland, MBA, RDCS, FASE
After our last post on 'how to estimate the right atrial pressure', we received questions from our readers. What do we do if we cannot assess the IVC? What if the patient is on a vent? This week we will answer those questions.
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Why estimate...
Written by Judith Buckland, MBA, RDCS, FASE
October, is Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month (MUAM), a time when we stop to recognize and celebrate sonographers. Therefore, this week we are bringing attention to sonographer musculoskeletal disease with a focus on pain free scanning. According to SDMS, 90% of clinical sonogaphers experience...
Written by Judith Buckland, MBA, RDCS, FASE
Now that diastology is a mandated part of the scanning protocol for all of our accreditation clients, we are starting to see more diastology measurement errors. We thought that sharing these errors may help others to avoid them. This week, we will review correct tissue Doppler measurement...
Written by Judith Buckland, MBA, RDCS, FASE
We recently reviewed a case during a local hospital quality improvement meeting that required us to assess whether or not there was prosthetic aortic valve stenosis. It was interesting to touch up on the key parameters that should be assessed. This week we will review the key points...
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