Abdominal X-Ray Case Study Answers
1. INTRODUCTION
The task of taking an abdominal x-ray is a task which consists of many processes. The author will, in this essay, describe many of these processes, including patient care, radiation protection and descriptions of projections required for the case study. The information will be divided into the following headings: Case Study, Patient Care Plan, Radiation Protection and Descriptions of Projections.
2. CASE STUDY
A 24-year-old female patient was referred for an abdominal x-ray to the diagnostic x-ray department. The patient arrived from the emergency department in a wheel chair with suspected acute appendicitis. She appears to be in a lot of pain, is on oxygen and has been vomiting. She speaks English and is accompanied by a nurse, her husband and their 2-year-old child.
3. PATIENT CARE PLAN
Caring for the patient, according to Dorland’s (2012) is “the services rendered by members of the health professions for the benefit of a patient,” …show more content…
Air levels are checked in the erect orientation as air will rise to the upper sections of the cavity (Bontrager & Lampignano, 2014). For this projection the nurse will be assisting the patient as discussed in section 3, since the patient is in pain and may feel unstable.
Before the patient is moved from the wheelchair, the x-ray machine is prepared. The radiographer sets 115 kVp and 2.5 mAs on the exposure control and collects a clean 35cm x 43cm cassette from the cassette holder (Bontrager & Lampignano, 2014). The cassette is placed in the vertical bucky in the transvers orientation and the bucky lifted to the approximate height of the patient. The tube head is then rotated horizontal, with the central beam parallel to the floor and perpendicular to the bucky. The source to image-receptor distance (SID) is 150cm, and the central beam aligned to the midline of the bucky (Bontrager & Lampignano,
The task of taking an abdominal x-ray is a task which consists of many processes. The author will, in this essay, describe many of these processes, including patient care, radiation protection and descriptions of projections required for the case study. The information will be divided into the following headings: Case Study, Patient Care Plan, Radiation Protection and Descriptions of Projections.
2. CASE STUDY
A 24-year-old female patient was referred for an abdominal x-ray to the diagnostic x-ray department. The patient arrived from the emergency department in a wheel chair with suspected acute appendicitis. She appears to be in a lot of pain, is on oxygen and has been vomiting. She speaks English and is accompanied by a nurse, her husband and their 2-year-old child.
3. PATIENT CARE PLAN
Caring for the patient, according to Dorland’s (2012) is “the services rendered by members of the health professions for the benefit of a patient,” …show more content…
Air levels are checked in the erect orientation as air will rise to the upper sections of the cavity (Bontrager & Lampignano, 2014). For this projection the nurse will be assisting the patient as discussed in section 3, since the patient is in pain and may feel unstable.
Before the patient is moved from the wheelchair, the x-ray machine is prepared. The radiographer sets 115 kVp and 2.5 mAs on the exposure control and collects a clean 35cm x 43cm cassette from the cassette holder (Bontrager & Lampignano, 2014). The cassette is placed in the vertical bucky in the transvers orientation and the bucky lifted to the approximate height of the patient. The tube head is then rotated horizontal, with the central beam parallel to the floor and perpendicular to the bucky. The source to image-receptor distance (SID) is 150cm, and the central beam aligned to the midline of the bucky (Bontrager & Lampignano,