Radiography Nerd

waitingherefornothingtocome: X Ray of a Gibson Les Paul

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:01:19 +1100

X Ray of a Gibson Les Paul

The Next 3 Years: My Point Proven

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:01:24 +1100

“A dangerous infection which is becoming more common in people with cystic fibrosis can spread between patients, UK researchers say in The Lancet.

Doctors previously thought the Mycobacterium abscessus bacteria could only be caught from water and soil.

But hospitals around the world may now…

theviewbox: Got the latest issue of the Journal of Medical...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:01:07 +1100

theviewbox:

Got the latest issue of the Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences in the mail. I find this journal is very therapy dominated. In this issue, out of 6 articles, 5 are therapy and 1 is diagnostic/therapy. The 1 diagnostic/therapy article is:

SNAITH BA 2013 “Peer-review publication patterns: A comparison of international radiography journals” Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences 18(1) pp 37-43

The author looked at 4 radiography journals, The Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences (Canada), Radiography (UK), The South African Radiographer, and The Radiographer (Australia).

I hadn’t previously read anything from The Radiographer so I searched for it online to have a look-see. According to their website (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jmrs.2013.60.issue-1/issuetoc) the journal has just partnered with the New Zealand journal, Shadows, to form a new journal, the Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences. The first issue was published just this month.

Anyway, back to Snaith (2012). The aim of the paper was to “review the radiography profession in terms of [its] publications to explore the evidence base and identify its evolution internationally”.

The article confirms my accusation that the JMIRS is mostly therapy articles. Both the JMIRS and The Radiographer had more therapy than diagnostic articles in the 8-year period but overall, the 4 journals had more diagnostic articles than therapy. The author found that Radiography had the most international authors. And, over time, all journals had fewer articles by a single author and more international authors.

It is also interesting that the author, a UK based radiographer, chose to publish the article in a Canadian journal, therefore increasing the internationality of the JMIRS.

I think these metrics all demonstrate a growth of research being performed in our profession. However, it doesn’t demonstrate an increase of the use of research in practice. It seems like many articles I read speak to how most of radiography practice isn’t based on research. In fact, in a recent response to a letter to the editor in Radiography, the authors wrote: “In many areas conventional radiographic practice is still based on techniques developed for film-screen with little or no formal evidence base” (Manning-Stanley et al, 2013).

References

Manning-Stanley AS, Ward AJ, England A 2012 “Response to: ‘Considerations for AEC selection in radiography of the pelvis’” Radiography, In Press.

SNAITH BA 2013 “Peer-review publication patterns: A comparison of international radiography journals” Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences 18(1) pp 37-43

I received this too, and noticed that very fact.

Don’t forget that the JMIRS (and The Radiographer) is not indexed, nor adequately peer-reviewed so as to warrant much interest in being published in it by several members of our professions.

Most researcher’s interested in publishing papers etc will look beyond the Radiographer.

an-absolute-horizon: radiographs

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:01:39 +1100

an-absolute-horizon:

radiographs

Photo

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:00:56 +1100

iwannabeadoctornow: medicalstate: Foreign Body Rectal...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:00:59 +1100

iwannabeadoctornow:

medicalstate:

Foreign Body Rectal Obstruction.

I looked the woman at the ER desk dead in the eye and said, “There is no other way to put this. I have a vibrating dildo inside my ass.”

And so began a terribly tale of a man going to the hospital to remove this object. Sparing no expense, the man tweets his predicament live to the world.

Four people tried to listen to my chest with a stethoscope. “Wait what’s that sound?” “I-it’s still on.”

Too much information here.

Not quite how they were expecting that to go eh?

It’s unfortunate the number of times this actually does present in an emergency department.

The Next 3 Years: Trauma HBL Thoracic Spine

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:01:05 +1100

The Next 3 Years: Trauma HBL Thoracic Spine:

thenext3years:

Exposure Factors

When is was in my final year as a student one of the trauma rads showed me this amazing long timed, manual exposure for thoracic spines on trolleys. Amazingly, it also works for patients on the bucky too.

80kV
80mA
2000ms
160mAs
- on Casette
- in Grid

It sounds awful….

radiologysigns: QUIZ: Three children with elbow pain after...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:00:59 +1100

radiologysigns:

QUIZ: Three children with elbow pain after falling. Are any normal? Are any dislocated? Click to Play VIDEO ANSWER

blue-girl1990: The Value of Good Inspiration - PA This patient...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:01:16 +1100

blue-girl1990:

The Value of Good Inspiration - PA

This patient has increased opacity in both lung bases. The difficulty with this image is that it is difficult to know how much of the basal opacity is due to crowding of lung structures and how much is pathological.

The problem can be technique related. There can be a tendency for radiographers to ask the patient to “breathe in and hold your breath” without actually watching the patient to see when they have completed their inspiratory effort. Don’t “kick in the autopilot” when giving the patient breathing instructions- watch what the patient is doing.

radiologysigns: QUIZ: What AIDS defining chest infection do...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:01:07 +1100

radiologysigns:

QUIZ: What AIDS defining chest infection do these HIV+ patients have? HINT: the infection can often result in pneumothorax, as seen on this CT. Click for ANSWER

radiopaedia: 15yo with seizures. Where is the abnormality and...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:00:49 +1100

radiopaedia:

15yo with seizures. Where is the abnormality and what diagnosis do you suspect? ANSWER: http://goo.gl/WrX8l

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mutterscotch: Cute Have I mentioned that I love veterinary...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:01:02 +1100

mutterscotch:

Cute

Have I mentioned that I love veterinary radiography?

taillights-fadingeast: I love my degree, the people I’ve met through it, the places I’ve been. The...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:00:57 +1100

taillights-fadingeast:

I love my degree, the people I’ve met through it, the places I’ve been. The possibilites post grad, the pathways I can take, the fact that everyday is different and presents with a challenge and mostly the fact that I already love what I do.

firstruleofradclub: Patient came in for CXR 2 views, left lat...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:00:49 +1100

firstruleofradclub:

Patient came in for CXR 2 views, left lat shows the bullet lodged in her spine.

firstruleofradclub: Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) — When 58-year-old...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:01:03 +1100

firstruleofradclub:

Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) — When 58-year-old G. Siripala, a Sri Lankan prisoner serving a 10-year sentence for theft, was escorted by armed prison officials to Colombo’s National Hospital with severe back pain, doctors rushed him for an X-ray.

Doctors thought he might have orthopaedic complications, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. “But the X-ray showed a cell phone and two hands-free kits.”

Medical staff prepared to carry out a surgical procedure on the prisoner, the source said.

“However, the man said ‘Sir, sir, please give me a moment.’ He coughed, wriggled, shrugged his muscles and the items fell on the ground,” the source said.

The awkward incident reveals how Sri Lanka’s prison officials discovered the latest round of phone smuggling into the high security Welikade Prison, in the northern sector of the capital, Colombo.

The prisoner explained his situation to the doctors, recounting how had been chatting on the cell phone with a relative when prison officials carried out a surprise check on his ward, the source said.

“He had no place to hide it. So he thrust it in his rectum together with the two hands-free kits,” he said of the prisoner.

At nighttime, to avoid detection, the prisoners cover themselves with a bed sheet, hide the phone near the body and use the hands free kit, the source added.

Cat caught with saws, drills and phone in Brazil prison

Siripala’s undoing came when the person he had been speaking to rang back. The ringing tone came from his back and prison officials grabbed him, the source said.

The prisoner alleges he was beaten by prison guards, causing the back pain that resulted in his trip to hospital and subsequent X-ray.

Prison officials contacted by CNN declined to comment on the matter because there was no such complaint of abuses.

Siripala was kept under observation for a day at the National Hospital and discharged on Friday, the source familiar with the matter said. A prison guard stood by his side at all times until he was escorted out in a prison van.

Smuggling of cell phones into prison is an all-too-common occurrence, forcing prison officers to use hand-held detectors, Commissioner General of Prisons P.W. Kodippili told CNN.

“Most prisoners, particularly when they are taken to courts for cases, return with mobile phones given by outside parties. We have minimized the problem and are on the alert and catch them when they come in,” said Kodippili, who is in charge of all of Sri Lanka’s prisons.

According to Kodippili, the “worst offenders” are female prisoners.

He told how one, a drug addict, had hidden two mobile phones in her person after a trip to court. “She had gone to the toilet and sought the help of another prisoner to use a thin piece of iron to pull it out. She was wounded and bleeding. We had to rush her to the prison’s hospital.”

Kodippili said jammers have been installed in prisons. However, one mobile phone operator had a tower near Welikade Prison and this was causing a technical glitch.

“Very soon we will introduce body and parcel scanners,” he added.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/09/world/asia/sri-lanka-prison-phones/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Whenever I get to leave the department

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:01:02 +1100

whatshouldwecallme:

When the class hypertalker tries to over talk our instructor

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:00:48 +1100

whatshouldwecallmedschool:

radiologysigns: And the answer is… ANIMALS! Why?...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:01:14 +1100

radiologysigns:

And the answer is… ANIMALS!

Why? Butterfly appearance of GBM, Bear’s paw sign of xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis, Bird beak sign or Rat tail sign of achalasia, and Gull wing appearance of erosive osteoarthritis.

Trying to figure out that whole LPO RPO LAO RAO thing

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:17:47 +1100

firstruleofradclub:

Beginning of our first semester

Now

mouseinscrubs: hartmd: The steeple sign as seen on an AP neck...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:01:15 +1100

mouseinscrubs:

hartmd:

The steeple sign as seen on an AP neck X-ray of a child with croup.

Croup (or laryngotracheobronchitis) is a respiratory condition that is usually triggered by an acute viral infection of the upper airway. The infection leads to swelling inside the throat, which interferes with normal breathing and produces the classical symptoms of a “barking” cough, stridor, and hoarseness. (via Croup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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