Everyone here scans at the head whenever possible.  I scan from the side
when doing a bedside study and can't position the equipment in the usual
orientation because of space constraints.  We had a temp tech here from a
general US background and she always scanned her carotids "upside down".
Steve Knight
Vermont
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Ridgway [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 10:24 PM
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> Subject:      Scanning positions
>
> This isn't what you'd call Earth-shaking, but there's a bit of a bet:
>
> What position are people taking relative to the patient when scanning
> carotids? I'm still of the old school, sitting behind the patient's head.
> Another tech tells me nobody scans like that any more; he stands at the
> patient's side, facing the patient, much as one would doing an abdominal
> scan but a bit farther toward the head.
>
> Could I ask for a bit of a survey? There's a lunch riding on this. You can
> reply straight to me so as not to clutter the Flownet up severely:
>
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> Thanks a ton.
>
> Don Ridgway
> Grossmont Hospital
> Grossmont College