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POCKET GUIDE TO SONOGRAPHY
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By
Regina Swearengin, AAS BS RDMS
Reviews
Sherry Bohn, RDMS, RT(R) (Froedtert Hospital)
This handy, pocket sized book can serve as a reference
for entry-level scanners and as a review for seasoned sonographers.
It is designed as a resource for sonographers looking
for a bit more information on disease processes, measurements, and certain sonographic characteristics.
In addition to
student sonographers and staff sonographers needing a review, additional audiences for this book could include traveling sonographers
and residents and physicians learning how to do abdominal, pelvic, and obstetrical ultrasound. As a registered sonographer, the editor
knows what information sonographers need at their fingertips.
The book covers ultrasonography of the abdomen and small
parts and its use in obstetrics/gynecology and pediatrics. An appendix covers information such as normal laboratory values, normal Doppler
flow, and pregnancy problems. There is even short list of Spanish phrases! For each topic, the book goes over patient preparation, technical
factors, and very basic protocols. Ultrasound findings and differential diagnosis are listed by most to least common, not by alphabetical
order. My only complaints are that the book does not make clear how to measure certain objects and it does not include a diagram of the
Couinaud segments of the liver, although it was mentioned.
Working with ultrasound students, I know this book would be
of value to them when they start scanning more independently. A sonographer who works in a specialty laboratory would appreciate this
book when working elsewhere doing unfamiliar scanning. This is a useful guide that every laboratory should have and should be on student
sonographers' booklists.
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Weighted Numerical
Score: 82 - 3 Stars
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