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Ultrasound Machine

Portable Ultrasound · Point-of-Care Ultrasound · Operative Ultrasound · Sonography Machine · Intraoperative Ultrasound

A laptop-style or tablet-style console with a screen and controls, usually on a rolling stand, with one or more handheld probes (transducers) on cables.

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  • What it’s for

    Makes real-time images with sound waves. In the OR it is kept available or used to guide procedures: for example to finish a suction D&C under ultrasound guidance if a perforationper-fuh-RAY-shunA hole that goes all the way through the wall of an organ or tissue.per- throughforat bored (a hole)-ion processFull entry is suspected, to guide a needle into the pericardiumpair-ih-KAR-dee-umThe thin, two-layered sac that surrounds the heart.peri- aroundcardi/o heart-um a structureFull entry space if fluid builds up around the heart, and in brain surgery to find deep lesionLEE-zhunAn area of tissue that has been damaged or has changed from normal, such as a sore, wound, lump or spot.Full entry and check that a tumor is fully removed.

  • Lengths and variants

    Laptop-style and tablet-style consoles, on rolling stands.

  • What experienced techs know

    What techs who reach for it every day know about it.Pro

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5 sources
  1. AST. Surgical Technology for the Surgical Technologist. 4th ed. Chapter 24 (Neurosurgery), p. 1141
  2. Te Linde's Operative Gynecology. 10th ed. (suction curettage, perforation)
  3. StatPearls. Pericardiocentesis, Equipment, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  4. somatechnology.com
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