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17 Cards in this Set
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What x ray should be used to detect a lesion located behind the heart, near the mediastinum, or near the diaphram.
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Lateral View
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When positioning for c xray it is important to remember?
Intraplueral fluid ? Intraplueral air? |
Intraplueral fluid falls with gravity.
Intraplueral air rises |
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The ideal position to diagnose a pneumothorax?
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Pneumothorax (intrapleural air) position ERECT
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How should you position pt who can not sit or stand if you suspect a left pneumothorax?
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Right side down
Right lateral decubitus position |
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Normal chest film is always made on ?
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Inspiration
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Lung markings become more crowded.
Less air in lung- so lung is whiter. Heart is elevated and appears larger. |
x ray made on Expiration
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Expiratory film can be used to detect focal air trapping in what conditions?
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Asymmetrical emphysema
Partial Bronchial Obstruction |
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In an expiratory film the normal deflated lung will appear?
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Lung that deflates normally will look whiter on the expiratory film.
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In an expiratory film the lung with air trapping will?
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Remain inflated and black
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If you hear an expiratory wheeze what type of x ray should be ordered and why.
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Expiratory Film to look for airtrapping
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The affects of scattered radiation can be lessened by using a
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Grid
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if pt has free pleural fluid on the right, use:
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Right lateral decubitus x ray
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Suspected air trapping behind an endobrachial tumor:
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Expiratory
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Suspected Right pnuemothroax in pt who cant sit or stand.
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Left Lateral Decubitus
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Bullet Fragment, possibly in the heart
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fluoroscopy
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In emphysema, excess air is trapped in the lung. Emphysematous regions show ask?
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Excessively dark regions
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Fluid -(effusion, blood, pus) is more radiodence. And abdorbes more radiation than the normal lung--so the diseases area appears?
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light
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