Hitachi EUP B715 Instruction Manual page 21

12) Visually inspect the cover to ensure that there are no defects or
holes. Do not use the cover if it has any holes.
Cover the probe by the CIV-Flex Cover certainly. If the probe is not
covered by the CIV-Flex Cover, It becomes impossible to reuse them
because they are contaminated by blood and body fluid.
13) Apply acoustic medium such as physiological saline or sterilized
ultrasonic jelly on the probe or examination area.
The ultrasonic jelly supplied together with the ultrasound scanner has
not been sterilized. Never try to use it for biopsy examination.
14) Relationship between direction of the probe and the image is shown
in Fig.16. The right-left orientation mark on the image indicates
the direction of the biopsy attachment side on the probe.
Probe
Fig.16
15) Placing the probe on the surface of the examination region, depict
a sectional image of the target region. Next, referring to the needle
guide line, Set the needling direction.
Biopsy
attachment
side
Relationship between direction of the probe
and the right-left orientation Mark
CAUTION
CAUTION
Image
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Right-left
orientation
mark
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