Rad Procedures
This vertebral level is the entry point for the PA projection of the chest.
What is T7?
This acronym is used to define the steps of operating a fire extinguisher.
What is the PASS method (Pull. Aim. Squeeze. Sweep.)?
This year is the year that x-rays were discovered.
What is 1895?
This suffix means "the removal of".
What is "ectomy"?
These two competencies are required for students to pass the first clinical course.
What is a Routine chest X-ray and KUB?
This palpable landmark is used to find the centering point for the AP supine abdomen (KUB).
This type of fire is the most common type seen in a hospital setting.
This person is credited for the discovery of x-rays.
Who is Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen?
This root word means "bladder".
What is "cysto"?
This is the first person a student should speak with when a clinical issue arises.
This degree of rotation is necessary for the medial oblique projection of the foot.
What is 30-40 degrees?
This type of injection involves a needle being placed into the subarachnoid space.
What is an intrathecal injection?
This person was the first radiation-induced casualty.
Who is Clarence Dally?
This is the definition of the term "cholecystectomy".
What is the removal of the gallbladder?
This type of reprimand will occur on the first instance of a minor infraction of the clinical/program policies.
What is a verbal warning?
This phase of respiration is used during the AP projection of the scapula.
What is "normal breathing" (breathing technique)?
This method of transmitting microorganisms involves infected insects spreading diseases to a susceptible host.
What is a vector?
The first ever x-ray image was of this body part.
What is a hand?
This radiographic procedure of the bladder and urethra involves images being made during micturition.
What is a VCUG (Voiding cystourethrogram)?
This type of supervision is outlined as "supervision by a qualified radiographer that is present within the radiographic room during the entirety of the imaging procedure performed by the student".
What is direct supervision?
This degree and direction of angulation is utilized for the AP projection of the knee on a hypersthenic patient.
What is 5 degrees cephalic?
This organ is the primary organ of excretion.
What are the kidneys?
This person was the first ever to have an X-ray image taken of them.
Who is Anna Bertha Ludwig (Roentgen's wife)?
This radiographic procedure involves taking images of the biliary system (gallbladder and biliary tree/vessels) after contrast injection.
What is a cholangiogram?
This is the maximum number of hours students are permitted to be at clinic within a 24 hour time period.
What is 10 hours?