The affordability of ultrasound makes it easily accessible but also makes standards even more of a necessity in its practice.
Evaluating the standards followed in different countries and arriving at a set of standards for the Indian practitioner are focus topics of the Clinical UltraSonography in Practice (CUSP) conference being held in Chennai this month.
The four-day conference, scheduled for September 23 to September 26, is expected to attract nearly 2,000 participants, according to organising secretary, Dr S. Suresh. The conference will feature about 15 speakers, including two from the U.K. and one from the U.S.
According to Suresh, India has about 35,000 U.S. equipment installations, and U.S. facilities are available even in remote areas of the country, though advanced machines are mostly available only in metros and B-class cities.
What a basic exam should cover, when is a second-level exam needed for the foetus, and who can do a third-level exam? These are some of the issues that will be discussed at the conference, apart from collating research findings in areas such as diagnosis of chromosomal disorders in the foetus and indicators for coronary artery disease in the Indian context.
Most clinicians use Western literature, but the findings may not always be valid for an Asian population, Suresh says. For instance, at least one marker indicative of chromosomal disorder in the foetus has been shown to be a common variation in Asian population, he adds.
By AuntMinnieIndia.com staff writers
September 3, 2004
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