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Scanning the Right Kidney

Dr. Virginia Robinson

In this video Dr. Robinson shows how to quickly locate and evaluated the right kidney, looking for free fluid or dilated renal pelvis.

Specialties: Emergency Medicine, Hospitalist, Primary Care, Rural
Applications: Abdomen
hi I'm Virginia Robinson and I'm a full-service family doctor in Fernie BC and we're going to review the kidney ultrasound the external Landmark is the xiphoid process and you make a transverse line down to the bed and that's where I place my probe in sagittal or longitudinal section you can immediately see the liver and the renal interface from here I can sweep through the kidney and I can assess whether there is dilated calycase or a dilated pelvis if I'm having trouble seeing the kidney because of a rib Shadow I can ask the patient to take a small breath and this can bring the kidney right onto my probe breathe out alternatively you can move down a rib space as I've done here and continue your sweep you want to assess the academy from all the way from anterior to posterior this concludes the kidney ultrasound exam

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