Chest - Video Lesson

In this view, we will be demonstrating a PA chest The PHHS should be performed with a patient standing at the upright bucky with a seventy two inch source to image distance and no tube angulation. Our heart lies anterior and a little to the left. So we will always want the heart closest to the IR to reduce magnification. So I have him PA. He's at the upright bucky. I have used the IR one and a half inches to two inches above his shoulders, or we're gonna use the mid sagittal plane and t seven. His hands are on his hip, and we're gonna roll those shoulders and elbows forward. That is in efforts to pull the scapula as more lateral. So we can visualize more of the lung field. This will be taken on inspiration on the second inspiration. And this is essential so that the lungs