Diagnostic Imaging Flashcards
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What is TACBS?
Technical Alignment Cartilage Bone Soft Tissue
Which part of TACBS is key for trauma?
Alignment
What are the 4 Ds?
Detection (TACBS)
Description
DDX (Vindicate)
Decisions
What is VINDICATE?
Vascular Infection Neoplasm Drugs/Iatrogenic Inflammatory Congenital AutoImmune Trauma Endocrine
Option for follow up?
More X-ray Advanced Imaging Lab Work Prognosis of care Associations and compilations Referral (BE SPECIFIC)
What type of advanced imaging for chest?
CT
What type of advanced imaging for gut?
U/S then CT
What type of advanced imaging for acute head?
CT
What type of advanced imaging for everything other than chest, gut, and acute head?
MRI
What are the 3 parts of a long bone?
Epiphysis
Metaphysis
Diaphysis
What structure is between the Epiphysis and Metaphysis?
Epiphyseal Plate
Named Skull and Facial Fractures
Ping-Pong Fracture
Tripod Fracture (MC)
Le Fort
What is a Ping-Pong Fracture?
Depressed skull fx
Children
MOI: Broad deep depression
What is a Tripod Fracture?
Zygomatic arch, orbital, and maxillary process fx
MOST COMMON
MOI: Blow over malar eminence
What is a Le Fort Fracture?
Le Fort I - Maxilla and pterygoid plate
Le Fort II - Ethmoidal, maxillary orbit, and lateral maxilla
Le Fort III - Separated facial skeleton from skull
Named Cx Spine Fractures
Jefferson Fracture
Hangman’s Fracture
Teardrop Fracture
Clay Shoveler’s Fracture
What is a Jefferson Fracture?
Burst of C1
MOI: Axial compression
What is a Hangman’s Fracture?
Traumatic spondy
MOI: Hyperextension
What is a Teardrop Fracture?
Avulsion of a triangular shaped fragment from the anteroinferior corner
MOI: Acute hyperextension
What is a Clay Shoveler’s Fracture?
SP fracture C6-T2
MOI: Hyperflexion
Named Lumbar Fractures
Chance/Lap seat belt
What is a Chance/Lap belt Fracture?
Horizontal splitting of the spine and neural arch
MOST COMMON in upper lumbar
MOI: Auto accident
Named AVN of the spine
Kummel Disease
What is Kummel Disease?
AVN of the vertebral body