exhibition about ultrasound
From: marc jacobs (marc.jacobs1@pandora.be)
Thu Aug 15 09:29:13 2002
In the summer of 2002 an exhibition with the title "Inside out" is taking
place on 3 locations: the St. Luke Hospital, the Municipal Museum for
popular culture
http://www.huisvanalijn.be and the contemporary arts centre Caermersklooster, all
in Ghent, Belgium. It is about the representation of foetusses before and
after the introduction of ultrasound and the impact of ultrasound
technology on everyday life and our cultures. See the website
http://www.vcv.be/insideout/index.html (in Dutch, I am afraid) or listen
this weekend (Friday evening till Monday Morning) to the interview in
English in the English Section of
http://www.rvi.be/uk/hoeontvang/realaudio/index.htm
With kind regards
--
Marc Jacobs, Ph. D.
http://www.vcv.be
>----- Original Message -----
From: David Priver, MD <dpriver@aol.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND-HISTORY
<ultrasound-history@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 6:41 PM
Subject: A great story from the early days of ultrasound
> The year was 1974, and I had just finished residency. An OB patient
> presented with rapid uterine growth in the late second trimester. I had
> just read about a new technology called ultrasound and decided to try it
> out on this patient. In the city of Detroit at that time, the only
> place where OB ultrasound was available was Henry Ford Hospital. I
> arranged for her to have a sonogram there, under the auspices of
> Radiologist Jim Karo, MD.
> A few days later, I received a report which consisted of a photograph
> which was largely, to me, uninterpretable. It looked mostly like a
> photograph of a snowstorm. Dr. Karo had, helpfully, included a sheet
> of tracing paper to cover the photo. He had outlined two vaguely
> circular objects which he labelled as "Head of baby A" and "Head of baby
> B". Off in the corner of the photo was another extremely irregularly
> circular object which he labelled as "Abdomen of baby A".
> I congratulated the patient on her upcoming twin birth and proceeded to
> follow her on a regular basis. She grew very rapidly, and by 37 weeks,
> was truly massive. I kept reassuring her and expected that both babies
> would be about 7 pounds. She went into labor at term (back in the days
> when twins were almost never delivered by elective CS; ie the days when
> obstetricians had delivery skills). As I expected two very large
> babies, I invited every available nurse, medical student, and fellow OB
> to observe this birth. Imagine my surprise at delivering a first baby
> which was about 5 pounds. After the second baby was about the same, I
> reached up and, sure enogh, found baby C. All three babies were
> vigorous and healthy.
> At the conclusion of the delivery, I ran stright to the phone and called
> Dr. Karo at Ford. I asked him to take another look at the sono photo,
> with special attention to so-called "abdomen A". We enjoyed a good
> laugh over what we believed then and still believe now was the first
> ever sonographic photo of triplets. Dr. Karo has since told me that he
> still introduces new Radiology residents to ultrasound by showing them
> that photo to illustrate where we were in the old days, as compared to
> where we are now.
> It's my favorite story of ultrasound, and I thought it would be fun to
> share it.
> David Priver, MD
> San Diego, CA
>
