About this event
- Date and time Sat 27 Oct 2018 from 8:30am to 4:40pm
- Location Royal Society of Medicine
- Organised by Radiology
About this event
This interactive one-day course gives a comprehensive understanding of chest x-rays (CXR), starting from the normal CXR and working through patterns of infection, interstitial disease, neoplasia, pleural disease, mediastinal and hilar abnormalities.
Lectures are interspersed with hands-on viewing station sessions to reinforce and build on the verbal presentations.
topics include:
- Interpreting a normal chest x-ray
- Understanding the silhouette sign
- Differentiating between lung collapse and consolidation
- Recognising common tubes and lines and pleural disease
- Assessing hilar abnormalities
Agenda
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Practicalities of the CXR- PA vs. AP, anatomy, checking adequacy and its implications, review systems
Dr Peter Wilson, Consultant Radiologist, St Mary’s Hospital, Isle of Wight
The silhouette sign and its implications, alveolar vs. interstitial shadowing, pneumonia, lobar collapse
Dr Ting Ting Zhang, Radiology Registrar, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton
Practical Session One
Tea and coffee break
Practical session answers and discussion
Cancer, important lines and tubes, pacemakers
Dr Arpan Banerjee, Consultant Radiologist, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
Pleural effusions, pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum
Dr Graham Robinson, Consultant Radiologist, Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust
Lunch
Practical Session Two
Practical session answers and discussion
Assessing the hila and hilar abnormalities, heart failure, analysing mediastinal masses
Dr Peter Wilson, Consultant Radiologist, St Mary’s Hospital, Isle of Wight
Practical Session Three
Tea and coffee break
Practical session answers and discussion
Close of meeting
Location
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom