Ultrasonography is the most common test used in the emergency department for the diagnosis of biliary colic and acute cholecystitis (see the image below). This imaging modality may be diagnostic for biliary disease, help exclude biliary disease, or may reveal alternative causes of the patient's symptoms.
What group of women was initially targeted to join the labor force? young unmarried women. military wives. married women with no children. married women with older children.
During the war years, the decrease in the availability of men in the work force also led to an upsurge in the number of women holding non-war-related factory jobs. By the mid-1940s, the percentage of women in the American work force had expanded from 25 percent to 36 percent.