Top Tips

Ultrapost will be bringing you regular top tips in different areas of Ultrasound.

Every few weeks in Ultrapost there will be a different set of top tips for the following areas: Professional Issues, Clinical and Technical & Equipment. We aim to bring you some short best practice examples that are easy to access and will support you in developing your technique or career. 

Professional Issues

Starting research and audit

Ben Stenberg, Consultant Sonographer at Newcastle-upon-Tyne NHS Trust, has put together some great top tips for starting research and audit.

Writing a Journal article

Colin Griffin, Deputy Editor of Ultrasound scientific journal, has put together some top tips for writing a Journal article. Submit your Journal articles here.

Report writing

Rachel Wilson, Sonographer at Hull Royal Infirmary's and member of BMUS Education Group, shares her top tips for report writing. 

Empowering students in ultrasound 

Amanda Marland of the University of Cumbria shares her Top Tips.

Top Tips to minimise the symptoms and severity of repetitive strain injury (RSI) for sonographers

Mrs Sam Frater, Superintendent Radiographer at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust, shares her Top Tips.

Five Top Tips for the student sonographer

Shaunna Smith, Clinical Specialist Sonographer at Hull University Teaching Hospitals, has put together Five Top Tips for the student sonographer.

Clinical

Testicular scanning

Hazel Edwards, BMUS Professional Officer, has put together five Top Tips for testicular scanning. 

Scanning for groin hernias

Hazel Edwards, BMUS Professional Officer, has put together five Top Tips for scanning groin hernias.

Ultrasound in rheumatology

Alison Hall, Consultant Musculoskeletal Sonographer, shares her Top Tips on ultrasound in rheumatology.

Liver elastography

Radiologist Professor Adrian Lim has 5 Top Tips on liver elastography.

Top Tips for DVT scans

Borsha Sarker, Clinical Specialist Sonographer, shares her top tips for DVT scans.

Top Tips for evaluating a renal mass 

Dr Simon Freeman, Consultant Radiologist at Derriford Hospital and former BMUS President, shares his top tips.

Top Tips ultrasound of developmental dysplasia of the hips in infants

CJ Browne, MSK Sonographer at the Birmingham Treatment Centre, shares her top tips on dysplasia of the hips in infants.

Top Tips for beginning musculoskeletal ultrasound

Alex Boxall, a Musculoskeletal Interventional Sonographer from Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Hospital, gives us her 5 top tips for beginning MSK ultrasound.

Five top tips on head and neck scanning

Catherine Kirkpatrick, Consultant Sonographer and Clinical Lead from United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (and BMUS Professional Officer), shares her 5 top tips on head and neck scanning.

Five Top Tips for Identifying the Appendix

Ruth Reeve, Clinical Specialist Sonographer working at Portsmouth Hospital University, has put together five Top Tips for identifying the appendix.

Ten Top Tips in veterinary small animal abdominal ultrasound

Angie Lloyd-Jones, CEO for Aspire Ultrasound Consultancy Services Ltd, has put together ten Top Tips in veterinary small abdominal ultrasound. 

Five Top Tips for progressing in MSK ultrasound

Mr Kyle Foster, MSK Sonographer at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust, provides five Top Tips for progressing in MSK ultrasound.

Five Top Tips for measuring amniotic fluid

Co-authored by Sally Holloway, Rachel Wilkins, Ellen Dyer. All are research sonographers working on the Pregnancy Outcome Prediction Study 2, and employed by the University of Cambridge at the Rosie Hospital, Cambridge.

Five Top Tips for paediatric scanning

from Richard Brindley, Consultant Sonographer, Rheumatology, Davy Unit, Cannock, The Royal Wolverhampton Trust.

Five Top Tips for neonatal ultrasound safety

Pat Duffin, Paediatric Sonographer, and Prashant Verma, Clinical Scientist, with contributions from the BMUS Physics & Safety Group (Piero Miloro, Gail Ter Haar, Christoph Lees, Ben Stenberg & Caroline Shaw).

Five Top Tips for fistula scanning

Produced by Tracey Griffin, Team Lead for Ultrasound at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness.

Top tips for scanning for small bowel disease

Clinical Specialist GI Sonographer Dr Ruth Reeve of Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust shares her top tips for scannin for small bowel disease

Top Tips for scanning for intussusception

Radiographer Advanced Practitioner Claire Ward of Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust shares her top tips for scanning for intussusception

Technical and Equipment

Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound: technical top tips

Radiologist Dr Gibran Timothy Yusuf shares his Top Tips on contrast-enhanced ultrasound.

Medical ultrasound safety

The BMUS Physics and Safety Committee have put together the following top 5 tips on medical ultrasound safety. 

Ultrasound quality assurance

Physicist Nick Dudley of of United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust shares his top tips for QA.

Evaluating new equipment features and understanding their impact

Dr Heather Venables, Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby (and BMUS representative to CASE Council), shares her top tips for evaluation of new equipment features.

Top Tips for ultrasound probe care 

Physicist Nick Dudley of United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust shares his five top tips for ultrasound probe care. These tips can help to prolong the life of your ultrasound probe by reducing wear and tear and the risk of damage.