REVUE SAFETY AND POTENTIAL HAZARDS IN THE CURRENT APPLICATIONS OF
ULTRASOUND IN OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY An editorial on Applic Page 1 Ultrasound …

Medical diagnostic ultrasound has been in use for over 40 years, having found widespread
applications in ana-tomic imaging and blood flow velocity measurement in virtually all areas …

Confirmed experimental mammalian biological effects have occurred at intensities above
100 mW/cm 2. Reports (mostly with in vitro cell systems) of effects using diagnostic …

Ultrasound is a mechanical vibration (sound) at frequencies above the normal level of
human hearing (20 kHz or 20,000 cycles per second). It is a nonionizing form of radiation …

Diagnostic ultrasound has been in clinical use for over 30 years, and, so far, there has becn
no independently confirmed report that the technicue causes harm to patients. Indeed, the …

Safety assurance for diagnostic ultrasound in obstetrics began with a tacit assumption of
safety allowed by a federal law enacted in 1976 for then-existing medical ultrasound …

It has been estimated that more than half of all pregnant women in the United States
undergo diagnostic ultrasound during their pregnancies. In light of this, the question of safety …

Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, Connecticut he purpose of perinatal
ultrasound imaging is to obtain information that will aid in diagnosis and patient …

Health care workers and patients alike are concerned about the safety of diagnostic
ultrasonography in clinical practice. Evidence published to date on the immediate and …

Anumber OF recent events has stimulated increased interest in the safety of ultrasound. The
use of ultrasound continues to grow in obstetrics, and more obstetricians are recommending …