"I had a lady referred for a potential miscarriage from a clinic and when I scanned her they'd measured a bleed in the womb and they completely missed a very early pregnancy sac with a baby inside it, said Katie Thompson, a hospital sonographer and president of the SoR. Potentially, if they were at a private clinic that could offer a miscarriage service, then they could have been given some medication to bring on a miscarriage on a pregnancy that was actually not miscarrying, she said."
"Elaine Brooks, a former hospital sonographer and Midlands regional officer for the SoR, said some people attended their 20-week hospital scan after having had a private sexing scan a week or two before. And then they come for their NHS scan and there's quite a large abnormality that should have been picked up something like spina bifida, polycystic kidneys or fluid-filled ventricles in the head things that you wouldn't expect to have developed in a week, she said."
The Society for Radiographers reports rapid growth in high street pregnancy-scan clinics and identifies lack of properly trained staff as a risk to mothers and unborn babies. Hospital sonographers report cases of missed early pregnancies, incorrect miscarriage treatments, false diagnoses or missed ectopic pregnancies, misdiagnosed cervical problems, and missed fetal abnormalities that should have been detected earlier. Examples include undetected spina bifida, polycystic kidneys, and fluid-filled ventricles. The Society calls for a protected job title for sonographers to ensure only properly qualified, registered practitioners perform scans and to improve detection and patient safety.
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