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Patient safety: leakage current, acoustic output and disinfection

Explain the three ways an ultrasound examination can harm a patient — electrical leakage through the probe, acoustic output and infection or chemical damage — and what the engineer checks and refuses to do in each case.

Probe disinfection, storage and a cracked lens

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