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Change: over a working lifetime as a radiographer I have commonly performed erect abdominal plain films on patients when it was not indicated and not performed one when it was indicated. This page considers why this happens. What is the Role of the Erect Abdominal Plain film in the ED?
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Change: lotslarge volumes of air. How important is it to also establish whether the small bowel also contains fluid.fluid? Will this information assist in confirming the diagnosis? The answer of course is no- whether the small bowel contains fluid as well as air is, under normal circumstances, highly irrelevant.
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Change: and are even under the same gravitational forces. The difference lies in the fact that a contained air/fluid filled structure will have an interface that is imaged en face in the supine projection and in profile in the erect projection. There are, of course, other
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Change: This page looks at why this happens. What is the Role of the Erect Abdominal Plain film in the ED? The difference between the supine abdominal plain film and the erect abdominal plain film has
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Change: joint education exercise. The suggested attitude for radiographers is - emphasis should be on education not confrontation - adopt the attitude of a joint learning exercise - mutual support - you might be wrong ....back to the applied radiography home page here
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Change: .....putting the pieces together Introduction This page is presented in the context of imaging services provided to an Emergency Department or other acute care referrer. Some of the content may not apply in a different context. The abdominal plain film is possibly the
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Change: or a planet with a similar gravitational forces" ....and that is all I learn The Thermometer Analogy The abdominal plain film has been suggested to provide information which is akin to taking a
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Change: the similar projections of the same anatomy and are even under the same gravitational forces. The The difference lies in the fact that a contained air/fluid filled structure structure will have an interface that is imaged en face in the supine projection and in profile in the erect projection.
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Change: clinical examination and clinicalblood examination.results. The Poster I have placed a poster on the wall of the X-ray viewing area in the Emergency Department as shown below This is a quotation from the abdominal plain film bible by Stephen R. Baker. His book titled The Abdominal Plain Film
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Change: There were only format changes (bold, italics, etc.) in this version. See this version for details.
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Change: (www.amazon.com).. In my opinion it's well worth the money. We have a copy in our Radiology library but it is continuously out on loan. The Abdominal Plain Film Spectrum Abdominal plain films are not necessarily either normal or abnormal;
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Change: The problem is not just one of learning pattern recognition, although, I strongly suspect that it is the lack of pattern recognition skills on the
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Change: . Conclusion The erect abdominal plain film is often utilised when it could reasonably be expected to provide no new diagnostic information. When you are asked
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Change: .Recommendations of the Radiology Professional Organisations The concepts discussed above are supported by most Radiology professional bodies. The Australian, North American and United Kingdom Radiologist's professional organisations all make similar recommendations The erect film is to be used in “equivocal circumstances”, i.e. where the supine
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Change: issues discussed above. The deciding factor, however, is often based on a completely different consideration. I ask myself the question “… how much help is the referring doctor going to need to arrive at a diagnosis?” The referring doctor is not guilty of
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Change: the utility of the abdoinalabdominal plain film from another perspective “… the surgical registrars felt that the X-ray had helped in their management of half the patients, probably because the majority of the radiographs either confirmed or at least did not refute their clinical suspicions” Stower, M.J. et al
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Change: The erect abdominal plain film is often utilised when it could reasonably be expectde to provide no noew diagnostic information. When you are asked to
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Change: The concepts discussed above are supported by most Radiology professional bodies. The Australian, North American and United Kingdom Radioloigits professional organisaton all make similar reccomendations The erect film is to be used in “equivocal circumstances”, i.e. where the supine film is either not conclusive or open to variable interpretation” Royal
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Change: The abdominal plain film has been suggested to provide information which is akin to taking a patient's temperature. It might suggest to you that the patient is unwell, but would not throw up a diagnosis in the absence of other contextual information such as patient history and clinical examination. The
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