Hand - Video Lesson

In this view, we will be demonstrating the PA hands The PA hand should be performed with the patient seated at the end of the radiographic table with the image receptor placed tabletop. With a forty inch source to image distance and no tube angulation. Our patient is at the end of the table having a seat, and we're gonna have arm at a ninety degree angle with her elbow bent, placing the hand right in the middle of the ir. We're going to center at the third metacarpal phalangeal joint. We're gonna spread her digits out. So they're all separated, very nice and uniformed. We're gonna collimate and open the field. So we include all the anatomy. You're going to see the MCP joint, the metacarpals, the car pulls. And of course, off theanges, which is the proximal, the middle, and the distal phalanx