Ribs - Video Lesson

In this view, we will be demonstrating the AP upper ribs. The AP ribs above the diaphragm should be performed with a patient standing at the upright bucky or lying on a table. A seventy two inch source to image distance and no tube angulation. There are many ways in which you can take radiographs of the ribs. Textbook says that if the injury is anterior, then you should put that injury closer to the IR. So, therefore, we would do PAs. If the injury is posterior, we want that injury closer to the IR, so we would do a piece. So I'm going today to demonstrate an injury that is posterior. I'm going to take a a radiograph AP above the diaphragm. Then I'm also going to take one below the diaphragm. Then I'm going to row him to the affected side. When it is an a