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Anatomic Planes

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So this goes back to anatomy, and you may recall the anatomic planes. If you’re looking at a patient and they’re lying on a stretcher you could think about cutting through the body in one of three orthogonal planes. The one that goes from head to feet when the transducer is placed on the anterior portion of the body, the abdomen, is a sagittal or longitudinal plane. If we turn the indicator towards the patient’s right (and this is the one we’ve been looking at so far), then the plane of the ultrasound will cut through the body in an axial or transverse plane, very similar to what we typically look at in a CT scan image. The other image which is important especially in the FAST exam and the ways we look at the kidney and liver, is the coronal or frontal plane, where the indicator is also directed towards the head, but the plane of the ultrasound and the plane of the body is essentially parallel to that of the bed so you’re placing the probe at the side and cutting in.

Ultrasound Basics Part 2

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Lesson NameMinutes id
Introduction1
26
Anatomic Planes1 checkmark
27
Transverse I1
28
Transverse II1
29
Transverse III1
30
Transverse IV1
31
Sagittal Plane I1
32
Sagittal Plane II1
33
Sagittal Plane III1
34
Sagittal Plane IV1
35
Coronal Plane I1
36
Coronal Plane II1
37
Coronal Plane III1
38

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