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.
Enslaved women regularly engaged in heavy field labor, as well as performing most of the domestic labor of cooking, cleaning, and raising children. Since the late nineteenth century, African-American women have participated in the labor force at a rate higher than that of any other group of American women. As late as 1997, 51 percent of black women worked full time, compared to 42 percent of white women and 35 percent of Hispanic women.