Clinical Reflection: My First Performed Transvaginal Scan

A challenge that I had during my first clinical rotation was the first performed transvaginal scan that came earlier than I expected. It was my first contact with a transvaginal transducer, inside of a woman's body and my first scan of ectopic pregnancy. In spite of all the nervousness and without any knowledge of how the procedure is or how to find the organs by looking internally, I kept my calm and “poker face” together.

Everything started as a regular clinical day, eager to learn new scanning techniques and be helpful to the sonographers that I follow during my clinical rotation. This new case that I was about to observed, according to the previous notes were an emergency exam with a suspicion of ectopic pregnancy, however, no one was expected to be a large

It gives you a clear image of the female pelvic organs where the organs are very close to the transducer. Even though you as a sonographer are very close to the patient, the privacy is always respected. That was my basic information about this procedure, however, nothing in how the transducer is maneuvered to find the organs or how far can be pushed in or out without hurting the patient or in this case the baby. Those are information that we introduced to us later in class.

After a laborious scanning in which the sonographer took nice and clear images of the organs and we found out the baby was 9 weeks the sonographer handed me the transducer and asked if I would like to scan. Knowing the difficulty of this case my heart stopped for the moment and I panicked inside, however, I did not hesitate to keep my calm and give a positive answer even though I did not really know what I was doing. I know how limited the scanning chances are, especially for those transvaginal procedures and I did not want to miss this opportunity due to my