ISSUE
08
April
2020
MONTHLY
JOURNAL OF
DIAGNOSTIC
MEDICAL
SONOGRAPHY
TECHNOLOGY
Diagnostic Medical Sonography
SONO NEWS
This Month’s Issue
Letter from the Editor
COVID-19 and Ultrasound
Adult Cardiac Sonography
& Breast Sonography
A Survival Guide
Ultrasound in Livestock
Ultrasound Reporting
An Educated Patient
Editor:
Nadja Alfonso Jean-Denis
Staff:
Shannon McMohan
Faith Noel
Elizabeth Jackson
Rayne Hardy
DMS Staff
Dr. Harry Holdorf
Program Manager
321-433-7130
[email protected]
Dan Clancy
Clinical Coordinator
321-433-7312
[email protected]
Heather Brabon
Physics Instructor
[email protected]
For more information
on Diagnostic Medical
Sonography, please
contact the Health Science
Admissions & Advising
Office at :
321-433-7575
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Letter From The Editor
Dear Readers,
I am writing our April newsletter from my home. Unfortunately, a lot of things
have changed due to the worldwide effects of the COVID-19 virus. We miss
seeing each other in-person, scanning and observing at our clinical sites. At
the same time, our instructors, Dan Clancy and Dr. Harry Holdorf, are working
hard to change our in-class program to an online format. They are also looking
into new solutions, such as obtaining a piece of mobile sonography equipment
called the Butterfly, which combines a transducer and ultrasound machine into
one small device that can be used to scan family members at home. This is a
wonderful idea that we cannot wait to see implemented!
Many of us are wisely using this time of physical distancing to prepare for the
SPI. Every sonography student must pass this exam in order to become a board-
certified sonographer. Through the exam, student sonographers demonstrate
their understanding of the physics of sound, as well as how to manipulate the
ultrasound machine to take the best possible images of a patient, which helps
the radiologist to make a diagnosis.
Sincerely,
Nadja Alfonso Jean-Denis
Diagnostic
Medical
Sonography