Ultrasound diagnostics
A specialist who represents this area of medicine is an ultrasound doctor or diagnostician.
A specialist who represents this area of medicine is an ultrasound doctor or diagnostician.
Symptoms that require you to see an ultrasound doctor:
- pain in internal organs;
- nausea, vomiting;
- impaired bowel habits;
- change in skin color;
- chronic headaches;
- palpable neoplasms, subcutaneous seals.
Diseases that are studied by ultrasound diagnostics:
- head injuries: hemorrhage, concussion brain;
- trauma, eye burns;
- abdominal and retroperitoneal abnormalities: liver, kidneys, gallbladder, pancreas, etc.;
- pelvic pathologies: prostate, bladder;
- diseases of the reproductive system of men and women;
- neoplasms in internal organs;
- blood flow disorders.
Diagnostics and treatment measures in ultrasound diagnostics
The ultrasound doctor does not prescribe treatment. His tasks include making a diagnosis, confirming or refuting the diagnosis written in the referral by the attending physician. In some cases, the patient undergoes special preparation before the ultrasound diagnostic procedure.
Ultrasound diagnostics can be performed in several ways:
- transabdominally - through the abdominal wall;
- transvaginally - by inserting the ultrasound probe into the vagina;
- transrectally - by inserting the probe into the rectum.
Patient guide:
An ultrasound diagnostician is a doctor who provides ultrasound examination of various organs in which pathological changes may be observed. The procedure is carried out by a diagnostician and a nurse who records the information received and then forms a conclusion (result).
Ultrasound is a non-invasive informative method of examining internal organs for pathologies that have arisen as a result of abnormal intrauterine development or acquired during life.
A specialist who performs ultrasound diagnostics is called a diagnostician. His competence does not include prescribing treatment. The purpose of the ultrasound procedure is diagnosis, confirmation or refutation of a diagnosis established by other specialists, monitoring the dynamics during drug treatment or after surgery.
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