Description
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
Chest x-rays are the most frequently requested radiological examination. Their interpretation can be particularly difficult and thus it is an essential skill for all doctors. This course will provide doctors with knowledge of the relevant anatomy, common appearances of pathology and a general approach to chest x-ray interpretation.
rates
RSM member prices: £33 – £75
Non member prices: £55 – £125
*cost includes tea, coffee and lunch
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agenda
8.30 am
Registration, tea and coffee
9.00 am
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
9.40 am
The silhouette sign and its implications, alveolar vs. interstitial shadowing, pneumonia, lobar collaps
Dr Ting Ting Zhang, Radiology Registrar, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton
10.20 am
Practical Session One
11.00 am
Tea and coffee break
11.20 am
Practical session answers and discussion
11.50 am
Cancer, important lines and tubes, pacemakers
Dr Arpan Banerjee, Consultant Radiologist, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
12.30 pm
Pleural effusions, pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum
Dr Graham Robinson, Consultant Radiologist, Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust
1.10 pm
Lunch
1.40 pm
Practical Session Two
2.20 pm
Practical session answers and discussion
2.50 pm
Assessing the hila and hilar abnormalities, heart failure, analysing mediastinal masses
Dr Peter Wilson, Consultant Radiologist, St Mary’s Hospital, Isle of Wight
3.30 pm
Practical Session Three
4.00 pm
Tea and coffee break
4.15 pm
Practical session answers and discussion
4.40 pm
Close of meeting