Everyone in my lab scans sitting behind the patients head. There is an occasional exception when we do a carotid in the patient room at the bedside. Sometimes it is just too difficult to rearrange the room. Michel E. Comeaux Noninvasive Vascular Lab -----Original Message----- From: Don Ridgway [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 9:24 PM To: [log in to unmask] 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: [log in to unmask] Thanks a ton. Don Ridgway Grossmont Hospital Grossmont College