Top Tips
Ultrapost will be bringing you regular top tips in different areas of Ultrasound.
Every few weeks in Ultrapost there will be a different set of top tips for the following areas: Professional Issues, Clinical and Technical & Equipment. We aim to bring you some short best practice examples that are easy to access and will support you in developing your technique or career.
Professional Issues
Starting research and audit
Ben Stenberg, Consultant Sonographer at Newcastle-upon-Tyne NHS Trust, has put together some great top tips for starting research and audit.
Writing a Journal article
Colin Griffin, Deputy Editor of Ultrasound scientific journal, has put together some top tips for writing a Journal article. Submit your Journal articles here.
Report writing
Rachel Wilson, Sonographer at Hull Royal Infirmary's and member of BMUS Education Group, shares her top tips for report writing.
Empowering students in ultrasound
Amanda Marland of the University of Cumbria shares her Top Tips.
Top Tips to minimise the symptoms and severity of repetitive strain injury (RSI) for sonographers
Mrs Sam Frater, Superintendent Radiographer at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust, shares her Top Tips.
Five Top Tips for the student sonographer
Shaunna Smith, Clinical Specialist Sonographer at Hull University Teaching Hospitals, has put together Five Top Tips for the student sonographer.
Clinical
Testicular scanning
Hazel Edwards, BMUS Professional Officer, has put together five Top Tips for testicular scanning.
Scanning for groin hernias
Hazel Edwards, BMUS Professional Officer, has put together five Top Tips for scanning groin hernias.
Ultrasound in rheumatology
Alison Hall, Consultant Musculoskeletal Sonographer, shares her Top Tips on ultrasound in rheumatology.
Liver elastography
Radiologist Professor Adrian Lim has 5 Top Tips on liver elastography.
Top Tips for DVT scans
Borsha Sarker, Clinical Specialist Sonographer, shares her top tips for DVT scans.
Top Tips for evaluating a renal mass
Dr Simon Freeman, Consultant Radiologist at Derriford Hospital and former BMUS President, shares his top tips.
Top Tips ultrasound of developmental dysplasia of the hips in infants
CJ Browne, MSK Sonographer at the Birmingham Treatment Centre, shares her top tips on dysplasia of the hips in infants.
Top Tips for beginning musculoskeletal ultrasound
Alex Boxall, a Musculoskeletal Interventional Sonographer from Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Hospital, gives us her 5 top tips for beginning MSK ultrasound.
Five top tips on head and neck scanning
Catherine Kirkpatrick, Consultant Sonographer and Clinical Lead from United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (and BMUS Professional Officer), shares her 5 top tips on head and neck scanning.
Five Top Tips for Identifying the Appendix
Ruth Reeve, Clinical Specialist Sonographer working at Portsmouth Hospital University, has put together five Top Tips for identifying the appendix.
Ten Top Tips in veterinary small animal abdominal ultrasound
Angie Lloyd-Jones, CEO for Aspire Ultrasound Consultancy Services Ltd, has put together ten Top Tips in veterinary small abdominal ultrasound.
Five Top Tips for progressing in MSK ultrasound
Mr Kyle Foster, MSK Sonographer at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust, provides five Top Tips for progressing in MSK ultrasound.
Five Top Tips for measuring amniotic fluid
Co-authored by Sally Holloway, Rachel Wilkins, Ellen Dyer. All are research sonographers working on the Pregnancy Outcome Prediction Study 2, and employed by the University of Cambridge at the Rosie Hospital, Cambridge.
Five Top Tips for paediatric scanning
from Richard Brindley, Consultant Sonographer, Rheumatology, Davy Unit, Cannock, The Royal Wolverhampton Trust.
Five Top Tips for neonatal ultrasound safety
Pat Duffin, Paediatric Sonographer, and Prashant Verma, Clinical Scientist, with contributions from the BMUS Physics & Safety Group (Piero Miloro, Gail Ter Haar, Christoph Lees, Ben Stenberg & Caroline Shaw).
Five Top Tips for fistula scanning
Produced by Tracey Griffin, Team Lead for Ultrasound at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness.
Technical and Equipment
Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound: technical top tips
Radiologist Dr Gibran Timothy Yusuf shares his Top Tips on contrast-enhanced ultrasound.
Medical ultrasound safety
The BMUS Physics and Safety Committee have put together the following top 5 tips on medical ultrasound safety.
Ultrasound quality assurance
Physicist Nick Dudley of of United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust shares his top tips for QA.
Evaluating new equipment features and understanding their impact
Dr Heather Venables, Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby (and BMUS representative to CASE Council), shares her top tips for evaluation of new equipment features.
Top Tips for ultrasound probe care
Physicist Nick Dudley of United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust shares his five top tips for ultrasound probe care. These tips can help to prolong the life of your ultrasound probe by reducing wear and tear and the risk of damage.