Ultrasounds

Paper Summary:

The paper explains how using ultrasounds assures that a fetus is growing at a normal rate and provides the most accurate and reliable noninvasive means of detecting fetal growth, retardation, multiple gestation and severe fetal malformations. The paper discusses women with diabetes and the added risks this presents to the fetus. The paper relates that pregnant women with diabetes are more likely than non-diabetic women to lose their baby, either during pregnancy by miscarriage or intrauterine death, or after the birth.

From the Paper:

"Millions of expectant parents have seen the first picture of their unborn child with pelvic ultrasound examinations of the uterus and fetus (Ultrasound). Imaging is used extensively for evaluating the eyes, pelvic and abdominal organs, heart and blood vessels, and aids physicians in determining the source of pain, swelling or infection in various parts of the body (Ultrasound). Due to the real time images that ultrasound provides, it can also be used to guide procedures such as needle biopsies, and is now being used to image the breasts and to guide biopsy of breast cancer, and is also used to evaluate superficial structures such as the thyroid gland and scrotum (Ultrasound)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• "All About Diabetes." Retrieved March 15 2006 from:http://www.diabetes.org/about-diabetes.jsp
• "Diabetes During Pregnancy - United States, 1993-1995." Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. May 29 1998. Retrieved March 15 2006 from HighBeam Research Library Web site.
• "Diabetes1 in Pregnancy." Retrieved March 15 2006 from:http://www.marchofdimes.com/professionals/681_1197.asp
• Lowe, Sandra Whitfield; Pruitt, Rosanne Harkey; Smart, Patricia T.; Dooley, R. Larry. "Routine Use of Ultrasound During Pregnancy." The Nurse Practitioner. October 01 1998. Retrieved March 15 2006 from HighBeam Research Library Web site.
• "Ultrasound - General." Retrieved March 15 2006 from:http://www.radiologyinfo.org/content/ultrasound-general.htm

More papers on Ultrasounds:

• Term Paper # 117088 : "Ultrasound Imaging"
• Research Paper # 87162 : "3-D Ultrasound Project"
• Essay # 50811 : "Therapeutic Ultrasound"

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