Equine I
Potpourri I
Avian & Reptile
Potpourri II
100
This is the most acceptable thing to pack a foot with.
What is play-doh or clay?
100
This is how many radiographs we frequently take of a horse's thorax.
What is 4?
100
This is required for adequate avian radiographs that do not cause stress to the patient.
What is chemical restraint?
100
Name the types of imaging units used for horses in order from weakest to most powerful.
What are portable, mobile, mounted?
200
This is the common name for the second and fourth metacarpals or metatarsals.
What are splint bones?
200
This is what we almost never use when radiographing exotics.
What is a grid?
200
The most common view taken of birds.
What is VD whole body?
200
These are things that you can do to restrain small mammals for radiographs.
What are chemical restraint, tape, plexiglass tubes?
300
These are the things that should be done prior to hoof radiographs.
What are scrub out the sole and cleft, remove the shoe, pack the sole with clay, make sure hoof is dry?
300
This should be done when using a plexiglass tube for restraint.
What is increase kVp by 2-4?
300
This is the animal that can be placed in a box for radiographs.
What are snakes?
300
DMPaLO stands for this.
What is dorsomedial-palmerolateral oblique?
400
This is where we center the beam when taking a skyline view of the equine carpus.
What is through the carpal bones?
400
These are some ways to keep a reptile in place during radiographs.
What is chemical restraint, tape and boards, push on eyes, cover head, raise turtles and tortoises slightly off the cassettes?
400
This is the temperature that barium should be warmed to before administration to birds.
What is 80 degrees F?
400
This is why avian bones are more radiolucent than mammalian bones.
What is air is stored in them?
500
This is why we use a wooden block with a slot or a holder with a clamp.
What is protect the tech from radiation exposure?
500
These are reasons to perform an ultrasound. These are reasons to perform an upper GI.
What are contrast medium or exploratory surgery is contraindicated, debilitated or young animals, when we want real time moving images? What are vomiting patients, abnormal bowel movements, foreign body ingestion, chronic weight loss, abdominal pain?
500
This is how long it takes for barium to travel from the crop to the cloaca in birds. This is also how long birds can be fasted prior to a contrast study.
What is up to 4 hours?
500
This is the average mA and kVp possible with a portable unit.
What is 100 mA and 120 kVp?
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