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How to Correctly Use and Set-Up a C-Arm - Video Lesson

I'm gonna discuss how to correctly set up a c arm. Now the one we're using here is an OEC So, of course, if you have a Phillips or some different, model, it could be a slightly different idea, but basically they all do the same thing. Now, on this c arm, which we also, by the way, at, our hospital here, we call them an II. So you'll hear me going back and forth between the two, so don't get nest up if I say aye aye instead of a c arm. Up here at the top is gonna be a little picture and we'll we'll show it to you, of a little smiley face. And, when you're orienting, if your patient is laying the way this patient is laying flat on their back, with their head on your right side as you face them, and you come in at