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General housekeeping issues
Kronos
 History form
 Vacation picks
 Journal club
 Testicular Doppler orders
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Team Leader introductions
QA review and philosophy
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Use location code for in punches only.
If you change locations during the day; stay
punched in during travel time and re-punch
with new location when you arrive.
Any missed punches or errors can be corrected
by any Team Leader that you are working with
that day. Otherwise, just E-mail your Team
Leader with missed punch information.
Approve your time card at the end of your shift
on the Friday or the last day you work at the
end of the pay period.
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Double check exam title
Change history to reflect proper indications
Correct spelling and grammar in history
Include a sonographers impression and any
unusual circumstances.
History Form
•History Form
Vacation
request form…..
 Makes
choices in order of importance.
Choices are weighted against each other.
 Please take at least one continuous week.
Not just 10 Fridays.
 Please give a brief description so we can help
everyone get the critical time that they
need.
 Forms come out after Thanksgiving every
year and are due in mid January.
 Please
try to attend
 Articles are sent out before the meeting
 We meet at HF and SC at 7 AM
 Various days of the week depending on
Radiologists schedule
 Contact a team leader if you want to attend
but are scheduled to work and we can get
rooms closed.
 Need volunteers to review articles
 Worth 1 CME each meeting
Testicular Doppler
 If we do Doppler, we need an order. Please check
even if it has been scheduled with Doppler.
 Make notes of what you do in the comments on
online form.
Meeting Requests…
 Please accept, deny or check tentative when
you receive meeting requests
 Simply gives me an estimated head count for
food
 You are expected to attend, but are not
mandatory
TEAM LEADER TRIVIA
• Will be more likely to say “Mahalo” instead of thank you.
• God, I love
Sydney Crosby. Yumm.
• I think I’m a
Team Leader but
I'm not.
• I constantly bonk
my head on things.
• Malibu is a boat ,
not a Rum. Well, maybe both.
• I think I've been here before ?
• You want a vacation day? Good luck!
ULTRASOUND MANAGEMENT
John Crowley-Manager
Lynnette Becker VP/VC
Rosemary Ermitano
Breast US
Marian Wilkonski VC/Schedules Julie Bronson HF
Kaelene Scoville SC
Bill Berry SHMC
UPDATE…JULIE BRONSON
IMAGE QUALITY BASICS…THE THREE
F’S AND ONE B
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Frequency
Field of View/Depth
Focal
Balance
FREQUENCY
What is wrong with this image?
Should be zoomed!! Higher frequency. Need an additional lateral view for
the septum. The grey map should be changed to add contrast. This image
is not as sharp as one taken with harmonics.
An image of the entire thorax with a four chamber heart allows the
assessment of cardiac size and axis, and demonstrates the area
behind the heart as well.
What is wrong with this image?
Improper field of view and focal zone placement– good transducer
frequency, but sector width needs to be narrowed and depth reduced.
Focal zone should be adjusted to the level of the nose/lips.
Nose/lips are outlined by fluid. Highest frequency possible used.
Zoomed in properly. Upper lip is completely demonstrated.
Recent QA Feedback
What’s Wrong ?
Cortical Thickness ?
Cortical Thickness
Post void image needed if Hydro is suspected
Missed RCC
Gallstones without the Gallbladder
Prior CT
Why did the Radiologist just have a heart attack ?
Nice work !
Nice work!
Nice work! Endometrial CA
Thank You !