A patient consents to a procedure in the radiology department, but after it has started, he decides that he does not want the procedure completed. The technologist should:

An essential component of the hospital governing legal and ethical standards (e.g. accidents and incident reports):

Therapeutic ultrasound demonstrates:

Patient Assessment: Review the following values and identify the most appropriate conclusion indicated. (assume the patient baseline is described at the normal ranges stated in the text & lecture) Adult Temp: 97.9, Respiration Rate: 16 (breaths per minute), Pulse: 75 BPM, BP: 120 mmHg / 80 mmHg

Effective communication promotes the success of patient interaction.

The “Ultrasound Triangle” refers to

A medical imaging professional:

In the process of obtaining a patient history before a sonogram is performed, the patient becomes irritated and complains that she “is getting pretty tired of saying the same things over and over to all these nurses.” An effective method to deal with this patient’s attitude would be to:

To manually measure blood pressure, you would need:

An accepted diastolic pressure would most likely be indicated as: