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Latest COVID-19 Information

Ultrasound Care Appointment Guidelines

Ultrasound Care practices remain open and have measures in place to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19.

Latest COVID-19 Information

What are we doing at Ultrasound Care to help protect you?

We care about you and your family. We understand that you feel worried. We have made some changes to the way we deliver our care to help minimize the risk of exposure for our patients and staff. Despite this pandemic, we will continue to maintain our high quality standard of care.

We encourage all patients, visitors and staff to use alcohol-based hand rubs often, which are freely available within the practices. We are wiping our hard surfaces multiple times a day.

We regularly clean our hard surfaces including the front desk and pens. We have antiseptic wipes available if you would like one prior to their use.

To reduce the number of people in the practice and the risk of exposure, patients are currently not able to bring children  to their appointment. One adult partner or support person is permitted to attend obstetric appointments  as long as they are able to show a negative covid19 test result.

We have recently introduced the Tricify system. With your permission, this will allow us to send images and short video clips to your mobile phone which you can then download and show family and friends.

The ultrasound rooms are cleaned after each patient. This includes the machines, cables and probes. Hand gel is available in every room and each ultrasound room has its own bathroom for patient use.

Covid Information Protect yourself

What can you do to protect yourself?

If you have a confirmed case of coronavirus you need to isolate yourself to prevent it spreading to other people.

If you have symptoms of fever, cough, a sore throat we request that you seek medical attention and reschedule your appointment. We need to work together to protect others.
Good hand hygiene, social distancing and wearing a facemask help prevent the spread of viruses including coronavirus. Good hygiene includes washing your hands with soap and water, using alcohol-based hand sanitisers, avoiding contact with people if you are sick and staying more than 1.5 meters away from people.

You may also want to consider postponing non-urgent appointments to a later date.

More information

If you are concerned, call the Cononavirus Health Information Line for advice on 1800 020 080. This line operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The Department of Health alerts are regularly updated and can be found here