Sarah McCabe

As promised here is the future of ultrasound. As the technology is getting better, there are new ways of using ultrasound other than just diagnostics. Neurological Treatment New research is looking into taking the ultrasound system and using it to boost brain function. After 2 minutes of sending sound waves to the brain there was … Read more

I’m very excited to share this post. Being in this program, I can see how good the image quality is and how impressive the technology has gotten. I started thinking what did it look like in the beginning? The Beginning of Ultrasound Jacques and Pierre Curie in 1880, learned about the piezoelectric effect which is … Read more

Hi Everyone, Sorry it has been a long time. I didn’t write as many blog posts while in level 3, a lot of my time went into studying, scanning and homework. It was a busy semester and it came and gone so quickly. Looking back this is what I thought about each level that I … Read more

In level 1 of the Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program, we learned about normal anatomy. Level 2 and 3 is all about pathology. This post is about which pathologies are more common in women and which are more common in men. Women The Gallbladder Women are 3x more likely than men to get gallstones. They are … Read more

Here are some questions I have come up, I have not been asked these personally. Why is the Sonographer pressing so hard? The images improve when we apply more pressure. Sometimes when a Sonographer is pressing, they are getting closer to the structure that they are imaging or they are pushing gas out of the … Read more

I completed my 6 weeks of clinical. I can’t believe I am now in level 3, time goes by so quickly. My clinical placements were Ridge Meadows Hospital, Royal Columbian Hospital and MedRay. Rose-Coloured Glasses Goodbye rose-coloured glasses; I didn’t know what clinical would be like or how to prepare. I knew I would be … Read more

As promised here is part 2 of 2. Abdomen Albert Einstein died of a ruptured aneurysm that he thought was acute cholecystitis (which is an inflamed gallbladder). When the walls of the gallbladder calcify you can get what is called a porcelain gallbladder, pretty rare but sounds cool. If you have a gallstone obstruction you … Read more

It’s that time again, level 2 of DMS has ended, here is a list of things I found most interesting. This was a long semester, from January to May, but full of tons of information and interesting facts. This is part 1 of 2. Vascular A carotid study is looking for narrowing in the vessel … Read more

Are you a BCIT student and interested in Sonography? What we do? How ultrasounds work? What your organs look like? Look no further, you can come and learn for yourself. I have been blogging about Sonography since September but if you want to actually experience it you can come into our lab and get scanned by … Read more