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Lightning rounds #17: Reading chest x-rays

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I've Done a Chest Ex X Ray, and I'm Not Sure What to Do With It

People also underestimate how much radiation they get from other sources. You probly got more radiation taking a commercial airline flight or eating a banana. Almost all of them, like i said, are a p films, meaning, you know, it's taken from the front of the patient with a plate placed behind them,. Just slid under them against the bed. Ah, if your patient can stand, of course, you can get a p a film, which goes the other way. But you can get laterals, but it's really hard on bedbound patients. And that does limit the sensitivity to some, to some pathology.

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