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The main goal of this study was to determine end users' knowledge regarding safety aspects of diagnostic ultrasound during pregnancy. End users' attitudes toward the use of ultrasound in low‐risk pregnancies were also assessed.

A questionnaire was distributed to ultrasound end users attending review courses and hospital grand rounds between April and June 2006.

One hundred thirty end users completed the questionnaires (63% response rate). Sixty‐three percent were physicians (n = 84), most of them obstetricians (81.7%). About 18% of participants routinely performed Doppler ultrasound examinations during the first trimester. Fifty percent of end users thought that the number of ultrasound examinations in low‐risk pregnancy should be limited to 1 to 3 (mean ± SD, 2.6 ± 0.9). Almost 70% disapproved of “keepsake/entertainment” ultrasound. Although 32.2% of the participants …