Update on Clinicals 1

Hello all!

I hope your clinical time has been going well. I actually have a bit of a different role in my department. I am a supervisor, so I don't scan all day anymore. So, I take opportunities to actually schedule myself back in CT at either Deaconess Main Campus or Deaconess Gateway. This past weekend I worked at Gateway. It was actually a pretty routine shift. Lots of abdominal pains and stone protocols. The only thing that was of any major difficulty was a PE study on a mid-50's gentleman with stage IV lung cancer. He was not in good shape and it was a modified exam, to say the least. I've included a couple of images that might be of interest to someone. I scanned a gentleman who had a history of DVT/PE. He had an IVC filter placed. This picture is at the top of the blog. You can see the "white" around the inferior vena cava. This is one image showing the filter. Since we retro back at such thin intervals, you can get a great idea what this filter looks like. The second picture denotes a renal stone in a young female that caused a mild to moderate obstruction.

Susan Brumley