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Ultrasound Technicians typically work in Physician's offices, hospitals, and sometimes diagnostic laboratories. Their job is mainly to use medical equipment to scan the patient for diagnosing illnesses or injuries and check on the health of fetuses at various stages during pregnancy (including identifying the gender of the baby). There are many different medical specialties that sonographers can choose from.

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Ultrasound Technicians evaluate what they are seeing and report it to the physician to look over and deliver the results to the patient. They also have to write something called a sonography report or clinical ultrasound report. This is a formal report that provides documentation for medical records, liability purposes, and unbiased information.

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AANEM-NMUS-sample-report.pdf.aspx

This is an example of what a neuromuscular ultrasound report might look like.

Most sonography reports (and other medical reports) tend to look similar due to the fact that the medical field has a set of rules and guidelines for everyone within the community to follow since it is a serious matter.

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Obstetric software for diagnostic ultrasound (drgdiaz.com)

This is an example of what a ultrasound report might look like in an Obstetric setting during pregnancy.

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Obstetric software for diagnostic ultrasound

Sample of obstetric report obtained with dedicated software. It is more sensitive and accurate than the software included with the ultrasound scanners..

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Obstetric software for diagnostic ultrasound

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Obstetric software for diagnostic ultrasound Sample of obstetric report obtained with dedicated software. It is more sensitive and accurate than the software included with the ultrasound scanners..

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Although sonography reports go through multiple people HIPPA laws must still be followed to insure, the safety, trust and privacy of the patient. The Ultrasound Technician is not the one who reports their findings directly to the patient because they are not permitted to interpret the results like Physicians are. If the sonographer notices anything that causes concern, they notify the Radiologist or physician who then looks it over and determines the medical diagnosis and informs the patient.

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The exigence in this situation would be trying to figure out whatever medical issue that the patient is having so that it can be helped or fixed. There are many reasons why someone would need to be scanned by a sonographer including finding out the gender of a baby, checking the health and vitals of the baby, looking for potential heart conditions, looking at organs (such as kidneys, liver, gallbladder etc.), checking for muscle or ligament tears, checking the brain and nervous system, and looking at blood vessels to find a potential blood clot or a blocked artery.

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The context of a sonography report is determined by the medical issue that the patient is dealing with, the severity of the situation, and the location that the rhetor is in. The rhetor in this case would be the Ultrasound Technician because they are the ones writing about what the patient is experiencing and the information that the doctor needs to know in order to give a diagnosis. The rhetor has to have a degree in medical diagnostic sonography to have the baseline knowledge to even know about what they are looking at and talking about as well as asking lots of the right questions about the patient in order have a full understanding of what is happening.

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The only people that should be seeing the sonography report are the medical professionals and healthcare providers that are involved, and the patients being told their results in a private matter. This information is used to diagnose, treat/cure, and provide medical history records for future purposes.

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There are two types of constraints (internal and external). Some examples of an internal constraint would be making judgement about your patient and allowing your biases to affect the level of care they receive, violating HIPPA laws, and not properly scanning the patient. Examples of external constraints include the patient not being fully truthful with you, the medical machinery breaking, and the doctor misinterpreting the information. Although most people typically view constraints as negative, I think that medical professionals not being able to make personal judgements about you is very helpful because if they were allowed to do that then doctors would have to waste time reading through unnecessary information about the patient trying to find the factual medical information.