Another week begins and as every Monday its Barium Studies all morning, couple this with the Orthopeadic Clinics and a vast array of M.I.U injuries that have been sent back over the weekend and reffered for x-ray today its going to be very busy.
I spent the morning between watchging Enemas and accompanying the Radiographer who was working in Room 2, this was great as I managed to do a bit of both. Monday Mornings in the general room is mainly hand, FOOSH and Facila Bones and the reasoning for this was Saturday Fight Night in town, the advice i wa sgiven prooved to be correct as a wave of injuries passed through the door with ?# many hands, phalanx and wrists and a fiew facial bones investigating #zygomatic arch.
With this hopsital having no CT scan facility all refferalls from MIU go here for plain film imaging, a great opportunity to learn in more detail the positioing and evaluation of plain film facial bones, something in a large City hopsital is lacking.
I did not spend a lot of time in enemas today as i felt it was more beneficial to learn more in plain film M.I.U cases, and I did a morning well spent.
There was also an offer to spend a morning with the visiting Radiologist in Reporting films and then the mornings Ultrasound list as this is an area where I need to gain a n understanding of the images and there acquisition, this is will take place next Monday 17th.
The afternoon was spent with a variety of Orthopeadic patients from two consulting clinics, many pre/post op knees, unusually there were a couple of shoulders and one failed ORIF where the screws had sheared and left metallic fragments within the soft tissue.
The most insteresting sight on an image was that of radiocative probes placed within the prostate as a means of curing prostate cancer, a basic plain Film AP Pelvis was acquired and placed on the light box, to my horror I thought there was artefact on the image. This was followed by the Radiographer asking what is in that area and I was told they are radiocative probes which are placed in the prostate to cure the cancer. Quite fantastic to view on an image.
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