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Chest X-Ray Interpretation Checklist
Outline ALL bones
Check soft tissues
Assess heart borders
Is density, behind the heart the same
Chest X-Ray Interpretation ... Checklist Outline ... Check apices for pneumothorax ... radiologistpage #Chest ... #radiology #diagnosis
Chest Pain - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Cardiovascular Causes of Chest Pain:
 • Myocardium:
	- Myocarditis
	- CAD/ACS
	- Valvulopathy
	- Myopericarditis
Chest Pain - Differential ... Cardiovascular Causes of Chest ... Pain: • Chest ... - Effusion - Pneumothorax ... Diagnosis #Causes #Cardiology
Pertinent Chest x-ray Findings in the Trauma Patient and Implications
Respiratory distress without x-ray findings - Central
Pertinent Chest ... rib fracture - Pneumothorax ... places - Flail chest ... Persistent large pneumothorax ... diagnosis #signs #radiology
Assessment of Chest Tube Drains
Stepwise assessment of Chest Tube Function
TUBE POSITIONING
 • Look at the CXR:
precipitate re-expansion ... 14-22 Fr stable pneumothorax ... -28 Fr tension pneumothorax ... resolution of the pneumothorax ... removal to ensure a pneumothorax
There is a hydropneumothorax.
Notice the air-fluid level (blue arrow).
The upper lobe is still attached to the
attached to the chest ... treated for a prior pneumothorax ... assume that the pneumothorax ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Pneumothorax
Chest Pain - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiovascular Causes:
 - Outflow Obstruction
     • Aortic
Chest Pain - Differential ... Pulmonary Embolism (chest ... Hypertension - Chest ... Pleura • Pneumothorax ... ChestPain #Noncardiac #Cardiology
Pulmonary Tuberculosis - Patterns of Involvement
 • Scarring, Nodules and Consolidation
    - Lobar
level in hydro-pneumothorax ... #TB #Patterns #chest ... xray #clinical #radiology
Cardiac Arrest - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

The probable cause is one or more of: something
priority is to start chest ... Toxins Tension pneumothorax ... CardiacArrest #Checklist ... #Differential #Anesthesiology ... Intraoperative #Checklist
Surgical Chest Tube for Unstable Pneumothorax or Hemothorax
PREPARE
 • Landmark: Anterior Axillary Line, 4th or 5th
Surgical Chest Tube ... for Unstable Pneumothorax ... chesttube #placement #checklist
Intraoperative Bronchospasm - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

❶ Call for help and inform theatre team of
Fully expose the chest ... cyanosis. ⓭ Obtain a chest ... anaesthesia #Anesthesiology ... Intraoperative #Checklist