Chest Mobile - Video Lesson

In this view, we will be demonstrating an AP chess with the patient semi erect on a stretcher or a hospital bed. The head of the stretcher should be adjusted to place the patient's chest as erect as possible. With a seventy two inch source to image distance and the tube angled coddily to match the angle of the image receptor. In this scenario, we would like to demonstrate a portable AP chest. Our patient cannot stand, so we've brought in the portable machine. And it is set at seventy two inches. It is perpendicular to the ir. We have a little bit of a caught at angle that makes it perpendicular to the sternum. We have centered an inch and a half to two inches above the level of her shoulders with the IR. We wanna make sure that the patient is not rotated. So make sure that your rib cage looks very straight, that the clavicle