Why aren’t health practitioners registered to use ultrasound?
Type “ultrasound” into Google and you’re likely to get the blurry black and white pictures we have come to associate with foetuses.
But ultrasound is more than just for pregnancy – increasingly ultrasounds are being used by a variety of clinicians, from physiotherapists to emergency department doctors.
The problem is that many clinicians who use ultrasound to supplement their professional opinion may have the education to read an ultrasound picture, but not the registration.
Annie Gibbons is the CEO Australasian institute of ultrasound. She spoke to Jake Morcom about the push for dual-registration.
This is an extract from The Chat. Listen to the full interview here.
Image: Patrix on Flickr.
