Chest X-ray for the OSCE
OSCE examination: Question: Please describe the main features on this chest x-ray in particular the mediastinum.
Category Radiology
Normal Chest X-Ray
Labelled normal anatomy chest X-ray to assist in interpretation review
DRSABCDE of CXR Interpretation
Chest X-Rays (CXR) are routine investigation in clinical practice and consequently it is important for medical students and clinician’s alike to know how to interpret them. There are many approaches to CXR interpretation, each trying to ensure that key abnormalities are identified and no area is overlooked.
Robert Kienböck
Robert Kienböck (1871-1953) was an Austrian radiologist and pioneer in radiotherapy. Eponymously associated with Kienböck's disease - avascular necrosis of the lunate bone
Interpreting Chest X-Rays with Dr Eric Strong
Dr Eric Strong is Clinical Assistant Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and has created a YouTube Education Channel with a variety of well thought out, well paced, information rich, free lectures which deal with some of the…
Emergency Imaging in Tassie
Rick Abbott gives us his take on the good, the bad and the ugly of the different emergency radiology services he's encountered in Tasmania and the United States.
a perplexing paradox…
The case. a 70 year old female is bought to your ED at 10pm via ambulance with a dense right-sided hemiparesis following a witnessed collapse at home only 30 minutes earlier.
a splitting headache…
the case. 39 year old female presents to your Emergency Department with a four day history of a gradually worsening headache. Whilst she has a past history of migraines, this headache is much more severe and of different character to any migraine…
against better judgement…
the case. a 62 year old female is bought into your ED following a high-speed MVA. She has driven her car into telegraph pole at ~ 80km
knee without improvement…
the case. a 64 year old type-II diabetic presents to ED at 3am with ongoing severe knee pain & fevers.
eye for an eye…
the case. an elderly female arrives to your ED with facial swelling and extensive bruising after a fall where she struck the left-side of her face on a concrete step. She is on warfarin for atrial fibrillation, but has not…
two in two days…
I have recently prepared a lecture on a current, yet still controversial topic for work following exposure to these two interesting cases. Here are the cases & their discussion as well as the slide-show attached…