Wrist - Video Lesson

In this view, we will be demonstrating the PA wrist. The PA wrist should be performed with the patient seated at the end of the radiographic table with the image receptor placed table top with a forty inch source the image distance and no tube angulation. So I have my patient seated at the table and she is shielded. We're gonna place her wrist right here in the middle of the ir where there are elbow bent ninety degrees. The central right is at the mid purples or mid wrist. For the PA, you would like to take your fingers, and you're gonna curl your fingers under, and that reduces some of the object image distance that's under the car pulls. We're gonna collimate about an inch on either side of the wrist and a two to two and a half inches proximal and distal to the wrist joint. We wanna leave her