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Perspective | Chubby babies get all the love. Well, here’s some for the ‘dinky’ babies, too.

“So, here’s the situation,” the obstetrician said. He took a seat on a stool at the end of the hospital bed. Remembering the scene now, I imagine him flipping up coattails, like a symphony conductor about to give the flute section bad news.

I was calm, though still surprised about being in the hospital, where I was handed over to this doctor after an early-morning appointment showed the baby was breech and fluid levels were low. I wasn’t in pain. I wasn’t even in labor. It had been a relatively

Blog Article: Using Intraoperative Ultrasound in Neurosurgery: Prof. Geirmund Unsgård

"In neurosurgery, you should be sure, and ultrasound gives you certainty and makes you feel confident as a surgeon."

Geirmund Unsgård is Professor Emeritus of Neurosurgery at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), where he worked for 30 years. For 22 years he served as Chief of the Neurosurgical Department at St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, in Trondheim, Norway. An expert of ultrasound-guided neurosurgery, Prof. Unsgård has used intraoperative ultrasound