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Author Question: When a radiographer is rolling a patient from supine into a posterior oblique, what is the proper ... (Read 11 times)

D2AR0N

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on: Jul 17, 2018
When a radiographer is rolling a patient from supine into a posterior oblique, what is the proper procedure?
 
 roll the patient towards you
  roll the patient away from you
  ask the patient to roll themselves
  stand wherever it is easiest for you

Question 2

The area on the anode that is bombarded with electrons streaming from the filament is referred to as:
 
 line focus principle
  small focal spot
  actual focal spot
  effective focal spot


Benayers

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Reply #1 on: Jul 17, 2018
Answer to Question 1

roll the patient towards you

Rationale: When rolling a patient on the table from supine, the patient should be rolled up towards the technologist to prevent the patient from rolling off the table and to the floor.

Answer to Question 2

actual focal spot

Rationale: The actual focal spot is the area on the tungsten target that is bombarded with electrons streaming from the filament.


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