Slay
Sonographers should be aware of work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Best practice while scanning is to avoid abducting the arm more than how many degrees?
30 Degrees
What color is usually use in color flow Doppler variance map to indicate turbulent flow?
A patient with cholecystitis most likely has an elevation in which of the following labs:
White Blood Cells
What is the most common collateral route in patients with portal hypertension?
Coronary or left gastric vein
Most common form of malignant disease in liver is ?
Metastatic disease
Which gain will increase the risk of bioeffects?
Transmit
What is defined as the ability of the ultrasound system to image structures that are positioned parallel to the sound beam as separate structures?
Axial Resolution
What is another name for renal cell carcinoma?
Hypernephroma
This tumor of the pancreas releases hormones like insulin and glucagon
Islet tumor (pancreatic neuroendocrine)
What blood vessel separates the right and left lobes of the liver?
middle hepatic vein coursing through the main lobar fissure
A patient has an abnormal echocardiogram, the report states that the hepatic veins appear to empty directly into the right atrium with limited visualization of the upper IVC. What are you looking for?
Azygous or Hemiazygous IVC
The major component of attenuation is
Pulse repetition frequency
Reverberation artifact that exhibits echogenic linear focus posterior to tiny gas bubbles most likely represents...
Comet Tail Artifact
What other name does the main pancreatic duct go by
Wirsung's Duct
In the portal hepatis, what structure is anterior to the portal vein and medial to the common hepatic duct?
proper hepatic artery
Which of the following is defined as only the active time?
Pulse duration
Which of the following is an appropriate unit of measurement for propagation speed?
Millimeters per second
Potential spaces alongside the ascending and descending colon on either side of the abdomen.
paracolic gutters
You are performing a sonogram on a slender female and notice a long, thin extension of the inferior aspect of the right lobe of the liver. This most likely represents:
Reidel's Lobe
Gallbladder usually measures less than
5cm
The inertia of the medium describes its:
Density
The change in the direction of the original sound wave that occurs when sound interacts with two different tissue types that have a different propagation speed is referred to as:
Refraction
A patient referred for a thyroid ultrasound will have abnormal ranges of this/ these labs?
TSH
How would you correctly describe the probe placement and imaging plane you would use to demonstrate the 3 hepatic veins and IVC in one view?
Subcostal oblique approach with the probe angled superiorly and to the patients right
What produces ALP?
LIVER, BONES AND PLACENTA