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Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSD) are a common cause of pain and injury for ultrasound practitioners.  Common sites of injury  Factors influencing ultrasound professionals’ likelihood of developing work-related musculoskeletal disorders include poor posture, repetitive movements, transducer pressure and poor grip, stress, workload, limited support or sense of control and other psychosocial factors. According to SDMS 2018 white paper series, Sonographers should remember that optimising the examination should not be at the detriment of their health. Please find attached and download the SDMS standard for WRMSD here Common causes of WRMSD in ultrasound practitioners include:  Poor and/or static posture  Repetitive movements  Transducer grip pressure and the use of force  Psychosocial factors  Workload management issues  Common sympto...

Ultrasound examination has ranked #1 choice of exam for many diagnosis probably due to it's none invasiveness, detail and safety when compared to other forms of medical imaging. Little wonder it's largely employed in antenatal care. The reportage of obstetrics exam has emphasis on many things but less is said of the importance of fetal position, most times when fetal position is indicated it's usually not detailed enough to help surgical decisions. During pregnancy, the developing baby moves into several different positions. As labor approaches, some positions are safer than others. According to medical news toda y, The ideal position for a fetus just before labor is the anterior position. In this position, the fetus's head points toward the ground and they are facing the woman's back. Most fetuses settle into this position by the last month of pregnancy. The anterior position is also known as a vertex, cephalic, or occiput ante...

There has been serious outburst from the APC and Buhari camp concerning the journey made by the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar to the US. Online news media quote the president's media adviser in his reation to the Atiku development that "He travel to the US being listed as an office aide to the senatS president". The veracity of the claim is not immediately known but it is now certain that the assertion that Atiku can not travel to the US is now a fallacy. What every Nigerian want is good governance not tales of who is capable of traveling to the US.

In what appeared to be self medication an Irish man reported in the ER with chronic back pain, upon clinical investigation the man confessed to injecting himself with his own semen intravenously for 18 months as his assumed therapy for back ache. Examination reveals a red patch swelling on his right forearm, the site of administration using a hypodermic needle. The swollen region is hard on palpation. X-ray images revealed an area of trapped air beneath the man's skin. According to report publish an online news media , the research author stated that "This isn't the first we've seen something like this. Perhaps this case reminds you of Aaron Traywick, the deceased biohacker who onces gave himself an unregulated herpes treatment in front of a crowd". Doctors warned that it is dangerous for the untrained to perform intravenous injection on themselves, especially when they're injecting things that aren't supposed to be injected into veins, l...

Somewhere in North-central Nigeria a woman was delivered of a strange looking baby.  The woman who came in with labor pains had some difficulty in the labor after the membrane was ruptured. With the fetus presenting with feet the obstetrician manage to deliver the baby which turned out to be a monkey in human body. While the cause of this strange occurrence is not immediately known many have attributed it to some mystical power. The strange baby died few minutes after birth weighing 4kg. The woman is in the postnatal word making a good recovery. The case was unbooked so there was no ultrasound record of the baby. Many doctors and sonographers have argued this to be anencephaly given reasons of cranial displasia and all other sonographic  expectation and features, but this seems to be a completely formed cranial bone with and awkwardly extended ears. below is a picture of an anencephaly I personally followed up from second trimester till birth. ...