Canadian women subject to extra ultrasounds during pregnancy: study

National Post ^ | 1/6/09 | Sharon Kirkey, Canwest News Service

[Nachum]

Waves of Canadian women are getting extra ultrasounds during pregnancy, often three or more -- a rate that appears to be climbing for no apparent medical reasons.

A new study based on nearly 1.4 million deliveries in Ontario shows more than a third of women -- 37% -- now receive three or more ultrasounds in their second and third trimesters.

[ConservativeMind]

What, then, would cause a higher proportion of left-handed parents to have ultrasounds over right-handed parents, if you believe parents’ handedness could be an issue here? I’m curious.

[the long march]

That is a nonsensical question. Have you soent anytime in an advanced science and or mathematics class? Your commentary suggests not

[the long march]

I have a back ground in thermodunamics and lasers and electrooptics. I currently am in a job where I do pure research and development. In the past I have been in r&d for profit (and frustration).

[the long march]

And what field of ‘science’ are your degrees in? Your inability to see that retorspective studies are not indicators of causality is disturbing

[ConservativeMind]

If ultrasounds can’t possibly hurt, why not be “a big fan of multiple ultrasound scans?” I mean, come on, they can’t possibly cause a problem to a small little thing like a fetus, right?

Never mind that low intensity ultrasound is used for acoustophoresis, bone and tooth regeneration, and disruption of the blood-brain barrier for drug delivery. Also, never mind that higher-intensity ultrasound is used to break up kidney stones, dental plaque, and even cancerous tumors on people.

Will you next tell us that all of the above uses are bogus, because ultrasound can’t possibly do anything?

[ConservativeMind]

I know that correlation does not mean causality, but we know that ultrasounds are energy that can be disruptive on both small and large scale levels.

Would you be willing to prove this, once and for all, on your own child in the womb? Hook the fetus up for ultrasounds every day for a while, maybe recording it for posterity?

Until that is done, or a study in which ultrasound is used extensively on fetuses, you won’t know if there is correlation or causality.

Enjoy.

[ConservativeMind]

Go tell these people they are off base:

The American Society of Radiologic Technicians

https://www.asrt.org/content/News/IndustryNewsBriefs/Sono/studyshows062408.aspx

[the long march]

You lunatic. I NEVER said that ultrasounds “can’t possibly hurt”. You cannot extrapolate the way you so desperately want to do. Even water in certain amounts will kill you if administered in a dangerous manner. Pure oxygen is not good for the human lung to breathe exclusively. Your inability to stay focused is truly amazing

[the long march]

That is not the manner in which an appropriate test would be devised in the first place. In the addition you apparently have no understanding of methodolgy