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Operations & Maintenance Manual: Measuring Bladder Volume
2. If the patient is a female who has not had a hysterectomy, press the top button until the gender icon
is displayed.
If the patient is a male, or a female who has had a hysterectomy, press the top button until the gender
icon is cleared.
Top Button
Gender Icon
3. With the patient lying in a supine position and with the abdominal muscles relaxed, palpate the patient’s
pubic bone.
4. Place an ample quantity of ultrasound gel, with as few air bubbles as possible, midline on the patient’s
abdomen, approximately 3 cm (1 in) above the pubic bone.
5. Standing at the patient’s right side, gently press the scanhead onto the lower abdomen through the gel.
The device’s handle should be oriented at 90 degrees to the sagittal plane of the patient.
Sagittal plane
90
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6. Aim toward the expected location of the bladder. For most patients, this means angling the device
slightly toward the patient’s coccyx (tail bone) so the scan clears the pubic bone.
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