ILOs

• Learn to use a system when reading a CXR
• Using the system, identify common conditions
  • Heart failure
  • Pleural effusion
  • Pneumothorax
  • Lobar collapse
  • Consolidation
  • Never events

Part 1: Revision of CXR

Huge overlap with previous lecture 👇🏼

Chest X-Rays in Heart Failure

• Recap of Cindy’s Way to approach an X-Ray…

The heart and mediastinum has already been fully covered in the previous sessions.

• What is the normal appearance of the lungs on a chest X-Ray?
• The lungs are like a balloon… here’s a cartoon showing what happens when they collapse…
• Look at lungs full of ‘stuff’…
• Look at Cindy’s approach to looking at a lung…
• Here’s a chest X-Ray from a patient in resus…
• Here’s examples of lungs with opacity (no air)…
• Let’s look at a collapsed lung…
• Watch out for a ‘VEIL’ lung appearance…
• Let’s look at a lung filled with stuff… not due to blockage…
• Look at consolidation on an X-Ray…
• Images showing us different lobes affected by collapse… anatomy test!