Doppler To Confirm Viable Pregnancy?

It has been a while since I last updated this blog and during that period I have actually met or contacted by a lot of readers who are interested in sonography and I'm very much appreciate the time all of you have spent to visit my humble blog. And I'm so happy that my passion in writing about sonography had actually benefit so many people in so many ways. So, today during my boring stay in Silka Hotel used to be known as Dorsett Johor Hotel, I wanted to share about doppler with you guys..

I've been working as an Application Specialist for almost 2 years now promoting Toshiba Ultrasound and when I talk about doppler scanning, general practitioner always ask me the best reason why they need doppler. So, it's easy... All GP's will need to scan early pregnancy as they are the first place all pregnant ladies will looking for to seek their advice and also to confirm the pregnancy. So, by using doppler, we can actually detect the fetal heart as the doppler will capture the blood flow in the heart. Don't believe it? Look at the image below...

Fetal Heart

Photos show a Right Flow Track of Fetal Heart. Note that the RVOT is the flow from Right Ventricle to Pulmonary Artery.

Notes from Wikipedia

The human heart has four chambers, two superior atria and two inferior ventricles. The atria are the receiving chambers and the ventricles are the discharging chambers. The pathway of blood through the human heart consists of a pulmonary circuit[11] and a systemic circuit. Deoxygenated blood flows through the heart in one direction, entering through the superior vena cava into the right atrium and is pumped through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle before being pumped out through the pulmonary valve to the pulmonary arteries into the lungs. It returns from the lungs through the pulmonary veins to the left atrium where it is pumped through the mitral valve into the left ventricle before leaving through the aortic valve to the aorta

Fetal Heart Using New Toshiba System! Mindblowing!

See the clarity and the details? Guess no other system can beat this. It's a mindblowing!