Clinical Ultrasound Safety and Use - Video Lesson

Hey, everybody. Welcome back to our series on ultrasound safety and patient care. This lesson explores epidemiologic studies on ultrasound safety, key research findings, best practices for electrical safety, and the professional guidelines that ensure patient and operator protection. Let's get started. Medical sonography is one of the safest imaging technologies available today, but that doesn't mean we take safety for granted. From evaluating long term effects to ensuring proper equipment handling, understanding clinical safety is essential for every sonographer. Much of our understanding of the ultrasound safety comes from epidemiologic studies. These studies track large groups of people over long periods of time to assess whether exposure to ultrasound has any long term biological effects. The goal of these studies is to determine if there's any link between ultrasound use and adverse health outcomes. For example, the World Health Organization or w