Fundamentals of Radiography: A Comprehensive Review

Fundamentals of Radiography: A Comprehensive Review gives the radiologic technologist an integrated review of the foundations the working day runs on, in four sections that match the four content areas of the radiography discipline. Patient care covers identification and order evaluation, communication across hearing loss, language barriers, and cognitive impairment, consent and refusal, adaptation for geriatric, pediatric, bariatric, and trauma patients, safe transfers, infection control, and recognizing clinical deterioration. Safety covers justification, optimization, and dose limits, radiation quantities and biology, protection of patient and technologist, pregnancy, and the culture of safety. Image production covers x-ray production, technique factors, scatter control, digital receptors and exposure indicators, image quality, quality assurance, and technical evaluation of the finished image. Procedures covers positioning vocabulary, a regional survey of standard projections with central ray logic and evaluation criteria, adaptation for trauma, portable, surgical, pediatric, and geriatric radiography, and image critique as a working habit. Written as fresh review material rather than textbook excerpts, the course threads recurring clinical scenarios through all four sections and closes with a comprehensive summary built for retention.

Approvals & Acceptance

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  ASRT Approved, Category A

  Accepted by the ARRT^® toward your CE requirement
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  ARDMS Accepted

  Counts for ARDMS credential holders
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  NMTCB Accepted

  Counts for NMTCB credential holders
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  California

  Accepted for CRTs, XTs, Supervisors and Operators
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  Florida

  Approved for Technical Category A for Florida technologists
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  Texas: Directly Related

  Counts toward the directly related hours Texas MRTs need (at least 12 of 24)
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  We Report for You: Florida, Texas, Kansas and New Hampshire

  Completions are reported in the first week of each month for the previous month: Florida directly to the Florida Department of Health, Bureau of Radiation Control; Texas, Kansas and New Hampshire to CE Broker. Your state license number must be entered in your dashboard for us to report your credits.
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  All other states

  Accepted

Applicable Disciplines

Learning Objectives

• 1Verify patient identity, evaluate the order against the patient, and adapt communication, consent, and care for geriatric, pediatric, bariatric, and trauma patients
• 2Perform safe transfers, apply infection control, and recognize early clinical deterioration in the imaging room
• 3Apply justification, optimization, and dose limits, and protect the patient, the pregnant patient, the declared pregnant worker, and the technologist
• 4Relate x-ray production, technique factors, beam interactions, and scatter control to digital receptor response, exposure indicators, and image quality
• 5Operate and evaluate equipment through quality assurance and the technical evaluation of the finished image
• 6Position standard projections using central ray logic and evaluation criteria, adapt them for trauma, portable, surgical, pediatric, and geriatric radiography, and practice image critique as a working habit

Course Outline

• •Section 1: Patient Care
• •Section 2: Safety
• •Section 3: Image Production
• •Section 4: Procedures
• •Course Summary