Clinicals 4/8/11

Scanning is seemingly getting easier with my increasing confidence that I am developing with the help of all the techs! I am looking forward to summer because we are spending more time in clinicals! I find it astounding how much knowledge of pathology sonographers are responsible to know and identify. This modality is for more operator dependent than any other modality and this is exactly why i feel that its for me! Sometimes I do struggle with obtaining good quality images because of patient body habitus but i need to realize that breaking my arm is not going to make the image quality any better. Sometimes other modalities might be better for evaluating certain pathologies and it is up to the ordering physician to determine that. Overall great week though! =)

Poor image quality due to pt body habitus.