Topic 1: Intro to Clinical Flashcards
(39 cards)
What is a position?
What is a projection?
List the general body positions
What does decubitus mean? How is the CR orientated for a decubitus projection?
Name and describe the three body planes.
Name and describe the abdominal quadrants.
What are the four types of body habitus and what are their features?
List body movements. Describe them.
What is CT?
What is MRI?
What is Fluoroscopy?
What is Mammography?
What is the first thing you do when greeting a patient?
What is the general rule for lead marker placement?
For what projection(s) should you automatically cover your patient with a sheet?
What are the skeletal tomographic landmarks? What are their vertebral levels?
What are the two types of casts a patient can have? How do you tell the difference between them on a radiographic image?
What is the difference between a sign and a symptom?
What is the tiny circular bone that can sometimes be found in the hand?
What is the evaluation criteria for fingers?
What is the evaluation criteria for thumb?
What is the evaluation criteria for hand?
What is the evaluation criteria for wrist?
What is the evaluation criteria for scaphoid?