Clinical Sonography III

The course will provide the student with continued work experience in a hospital or clinic setting. Students will improve skills in performing procedures introduced during previous didactic and clinical courses. Instructors will emphasize the identification of normal and pathologic conditions learned in didactic and laboratory hours in Interventional Sonography (SON506), Pediatric Sonography (SON504), Abnormal Obstetric Sonography (SON505), and Introduction to Vascular Sonography (SON507) as well as refining the scanning ability of students in procedures previously presented in Pelvic Sonography and Pathology (SON205), Abdominal Sonography and Pathology (SON206), Normal Obstetric Sonography (SON405), and High Resolution Sonography (SON406). Topics include equipment manipulation for optimum image resolution, sterile techniques, drainage and fluid recovery procedures, including thoracentesis, paracentesis, and amniocentesis, freehand and attachment guided biopsy, including breast biopsy and prostate biopsy, pathology and abnormal conditions in obstetrics, including the gamut of pathology, in the neonate, such as intra-cranial bleeds, masses, and duodenal atresia, organ malformations, maternal conditions effecting pregnancy, ectopic pregnancies, patient care issues: patient preparation, fundamentals of patient history taking, confidentiality, pertinent clinical laboratory values, and communication. Sonographic examinations are conducted under direct and indirect supervision.