Comparing Interpretation of Traumatic Chest X-Ray by Emergency Medicine Specialists and Radiologists

comparing the interpretation of traumatic chest x-ray by emergency medicine specialists and radiologists

results the evaluation of eps was identical to that of the radiologists in 89.5% of the cases. ninety-eight percent (98%) indicated total agreement and 1.5 percent total disagreement. conclusions there is a high agreement between eps and radiologists in cxr interpretations in shohadaye tajrish hospital. thus, eps can substitute radiologists in the emergency department. more improvements are rec...

Comparing the Interpretation of Traumatic Chest X-Ray by Emergency Medicine Specialists and Radiologists

BACKGROUND Discrepancy between X-ray readings of emergency physicians (EPs) versus radiologists was reported between 0.95% and 16.8% in different studies. The discordance was even higher when specific studies such as chest X-rays (CXR) were probed. OBJECTIVES This prospective study was conducted to assess the discrepancies between emergency and radiology departments with respect to interpreta...

Cardiac Interpretation of Pediatric Chest X-Ray

Ra-id Abdulla (ed.), Heart Diseases in Children: A Pediatrician’s Guide, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7994-0_2, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Ra-id Abdulla (*) Center for Congenital and Structural Heart Diseases, Rush University Medical Center, 1653 West Congress Parkway, Room 763 Jones, Chicago, IL 60612, USA e-mail: [email protected] Chapter 2 Cardiac Interpretation of Pediatric Chest...

The ABCs of chest X-ray film interpretation.

Comparing X-ray dose reduction capability of silicon-bismuth micro- and nanocomposite shields using chest CT test

Comparison of radiation shields of different thicknesses and structures (especially different particle sizes of their constituents) is helpful to select an appropriate shield for patient protection in medical imaging tests particularly CT-scan. In this study micro- and nano-powders of bismuth were mixed with silicone matrix to make composite radiation shields for breast. The shields were provid...