
Lightning rounds #17: Reading chest x-rays
Critical Care Scenarios
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Is There a Limitation to the Use of X Rays?
X rays are, you know, kind of a dated technology. They've gotten relegated to these sort of specific use cases that take advantage of their portability and relatively low amounts of radiation. And i think the thing that keeps that from becoming more main stream is a lot of institution inertia,. We just get chestx rays because that's what we do and they're good for that. Soand perhaps there's a user dependence as well. Of course, you have to learn how to read an ex ray too, so everything is straight off.
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