Stage 2 of grief: Anger - Tendency to displace anger in all directions; do not try to divert the
patient with humor
A sonographer patient and family member can create a - Triad
Anechoic - Without echoes; Black; fluid filled structure
Avoidance - pretends that a conflict doesn't really exist
Color flow mapping techniques - Japanese researchers
Who discovered the oldest modality - William Rontgen
Common communication barriers - Talking too fast, using slang, "talking down" to patients
Compassion - sympathy, pity
Complex - Mixed echogencities
Diagnostic ultrasound uses frequencies between - Greater than 20 kHz
Echogenic - Any structure that produces echoes; Bright/gray
Effective Verbal Communication - Prepare your thoughts before you; analyze the intent of each
message; adapt to your physical, setting, whenever communicating
evasion - an act of escaping or avoiding