Reading CXR & CT

[confuse]

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Any advices on books or websites that teaches you how to read chest X-ray and/or CT scan? Thanks.

 

[indo]

CXR:
ABCDE
Airway- trachea midline/ tube properly placed
Bones- rib fractures
Cardiac outline- knob and window
Diaphragm- costophrenic and cardiophrenic angles
Everything else.

 

[BigRedBeta]

http://www.learningradiology.com

Especially helpful are the "Medical Student Lectures" - click on 'Medical Students' along the top menu of the home page and then scroll down until you get to the lectures which start with "the 22 must see diagnoses for medical students".

 

[Law2Doc]

CXR:
ABCDE
Airway- trachea midline/ tube properly placed
Bones- rib fractures
Cardiac outline- knob and window
Diaphragm- costophrenic and cardiophrenic angles
Everything else.

That's the mnemonic the medicine types like to use, to sound like they know what they are doing, but if you take the elective, the radiologists will tell you it's actually not the way a radiologist would look at a film.

 

[indo]

That's the mnemonic the medicine types like to use, to sound like they know what they are doing, but if you take the elective, the radiologists will tell you it's actually not the way a radiologist would look at a film.

Ha, this is exactly what the trauma guy said. He was teaching it in the context of a trauma case though.

 

[Keg]

Felson's Chest Roentgenology

 

[lord_jeebus]

Felson's Chest Roentgenology

this

 

[Blade28]

That's the mnemonic the medicine types like to use, to sound like they know what they are doing, but if you take the elective, the radiologists will tell you it's actually not the way a radiologist would look at a film.

Three major systematic approaches that seem to work for most med students:

(1) The "ABCDE" method
(2) The "start from the periphery, work towards the center" method
(3) The "start from the top, work towards the bottom" method

Personally I like (2).

 

[confuse]

That website is awesome. I'll check out the book when I have a chance. Thanks guys.

 

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