arrt review: misc. procedures Flashcards
(40 cards)
breathing for RAO sternum
orthostatic breathing (if not, expiration)
What is a flail chest?
fracture of adjacent ribs in two or more places caused by blunt trauma, associated with underlying pulmonary injury
centering for upper ribs
3-4 inches below jugular notch (T7)
centering for lower ribs
midway between xiphoid process and lower rib margin
what ribs are true ribs?
ribs 1-7
what ribs are false ribs?
8-12
what ribs are floating ribs?
11 and 12
what level is the jugular notch at?
T2-3
what level is the sternal angle at?
T4-5
other names for jugular notch
suprasternal notch, manubrial notch
centering and respiration for lateral soft tissue neck
C6-7, during slow deep inspiration (through nose)
centering and respiration for AP soft tissue neck
T1-2 (1 inch above jugular notch), during slow deep inspiration (through nose)
Fuchs position, CR angle, CR centering
MML perpendicular to IR, CR parallel to MML, at inferior tip of mandible
is the Fuchs an AP or PA image?
AP (Judd is a PA)
textbook SID for swimmer’s
60-72 (done at 40 in clinical)
swimmer’s will show what region?
C5-T3
a high-pitched, whistling or crowing sound during breathing, often due to a narrowing or blockage in the upper airway is called what?
stridor
CR centering for Townes
2.5 inches above glabella
CR centering for lateral skull
2 inches superior to EAM
CR centering for PA axial (Caldwell)
exit at nasion
what is another name for a PA Axial skull image?
Caldwell
CR centering for PA skull
exit at glabella
CR centering for lateral facial bones
to zygoma (prominence of cheek) midway between outer canthus and EAM
CR centering for Waters view
exit at acanthion
