I was showing your comment about how manual techniques don't need to be taught and everyone I work with said you are an idiot. You are what a year out of college? Maybe you should back off the high and mighty BS and not pretend to be an expert if you are going to give bad advice.
I see, At my current site if GFR is in range with no history of kidney disease I would be allowed to inject twice but I still wouldn’t need to give them the full amount and I would run it by the radiologist on what I would do or what they want me to do. But technically with the radiologists in my current site yes it’s doable. My old site the radiologist did not want to give more then 100cc of IV contrast every 24 hours.
Yeah 100cc is pretty low really. Cath Lab will give 150+, then send them to us for a CTA chest and we give them another 75cc. Our rads say you don't typically run into any trouble until you get into the 200cc range.
Are Y views something the hospitals you read for do routinely? Our rads have basically eliminated them as part of shoulder series at this point. They say they are worthless, and now we just do AP/grashey/axillary or velpeau view.
You speak about this as if all travelers are like this, and that's simply not the case. Sorry that's been your experience, but a traveler is someone who is easily adaptable and learns the protocols quickly and has experience knowing how to do their job without training. As someone who does it all from your beloved two views to lumbar punctures to the OR, I know I'm damn well worth my travel pay. P.S. traveling is a lifestyle decision, not just people looking for a fair wage. You can't begin to understand ALL of our reasons for choosing this. Check your boomer mindset.
Boomer 😂 I'm a millennial (though I hate to say that out loud). Honestly though, if you were worth that travel tech wage (where we are the travel techs make about 3k a week or so, so about $75/hr with the stipend) then a hospital would pay you that wage every day instead of paying more out of desperation.
Thanks for the response! My car is the only thing I own. I’ve never owned a house-only rented. The car payment is about $525; insurance is 220. I just recently got a new job bartending to bring in more money. After taxes I bring in about 3000/month. Hopefully with bartending (I just started this past week), I’ll be able to get back to bringing in more money. Hope that gives a good insight.
Soon as I read that you have never owned a house and your car payment is over 500 a month, the answer is simple. Sell the car, pay off your loan and buy a car that you can pay cash for or have a very low payment of 150-200. Why people spend over 500 a month for cars is beyond me. It's a depreciation machine, don't sink a lot of money in it.
I did this and I recommend that nobody go through a college course for CT if they can find a site that will cross train for comps. I don't know why kids go spend 7k on an extra semester of college for CT when they can do this for cheap and then get paid usually to cross train... Our hospital pays you a rad tech wage while you get all your CT comps.
Some states don't require ARRT certification, so that would be where those programs could be useful. The problem lies in the fact that even in those states, the hospitals typically require ARRT certification. If you want to take x-rays in a small family practice clinic or chiropractor office, you might be able to find a job with a degree from one of those programs if the job is in a state that doesn't have certification requirements.
Hi. Is going for a bachelors vs associates really any better? Both qualify me to sit for the same exam, which is my understanding. I asked a program leader, and they mentioned someone with a bachelors is likely to get hired over me. I was wondering if that would be negated once I have actually been in the field and have relevant work experience.
Depends on the bachelor's program too. Some you graduate with training in multiple modalities, some you graduate and only do x-ray. Going 4 years for only xray seems like a giant waste of time. College needs to rid itself of gen-ed garbage.
So, say theoretically someone has a lot of GI issues, to the point of needing a GJ. During the last 3 years, they’ve had to have a total of 7 or 8 pelvic/abdominal CTs, in addition to a PE study. How worried should this person be about their radiation exposure?
Not a lot probably, depends on their age. If they are 20, maybe a little bit. If they are 65, not much at all. I have people that are our frequent fliers who are in their 40s and have had upwards of 125 CTs and 150 x-rays.
If you're talking about inpatient scans, tell them that the patients are really needs to be below 65 and they can just let us know when they get it there. And if they give us pushback and say they can't have meds or something then we just scan retrospectively and pray that there will be something useful in there.
I personally didn't do them where I was, but I know from my coworkers that they wouldn't even send for the patient unless their heart rate was in a certain range, but we still did need an RN (either rad RN or the patient's RN) to give nitro once the patient was on the table.
I always put the top of the light at the bottom of the sternum, I get my AP every time that way. Easier for me to palpate. I don’t like using the crest on men since their pelvis’s tend to be tall.
31 years and that's the first time you have seen it? I've been doing it for about 11 years and I have seen this a few times. One was on a coronary angiogram and I was asking the cardiac rad if we should label his vessels on the 3D and CMPRs the LAD/LCX/RCA or if we should call them the RAD/RCX/LCA.
You couldn't get lordotic enough to move that head out of the way. It would need to be the SMV of chest xrays
How cute they just tied it neatly in a bow
Usually the headache comes before the intercourse has a chance to start
at a first glance i thought i was looking at a very weird lateral wrist
Same I was like wow that's some abnormal wrist action going on there. Goes to show how animals and people developed from common ancestors though.
Except that the hock is the tarsus, not carpus. But otherwise yes
Yeah if you rotate it it does have an ankle in plantar flexion vibe.
Started at 27 and now I'm at 46 after 8 years. In ID
You wish lol.
I was showing your comment about how manual techniques don't need to be taught and everyone I work with said you are an idiot. You are what a year out of college? Maybe you should back off the high and mighty BS and not pretend to be an expert if you are going to give bad advice.
Sure lol you go on with your bad self bud.
Will do
It's double backwards. Both the cassette and the image need flipped lol
Radiologist report says it's "unremarkable" 😂
They ordered angiograms of the head and chest (PE protocol). So it’d be a pain timing the bolus.
The pulm arteries will enhance first, and our scanner does a full CTPA in about 1.5 seconds. I would scan it first then immediately do the CTA head.
I see, At my current site if GFR is in range with no history of kidney disease I would be allowed to inject twice but I still wouldn’t need to give them the full amount and I would run it by the radiologist on what I would do or what they want me to do. But technically with the radiologists in my current site yes it’s doable. My old site the radiologist did not want to give more then 100cc of IV contrast every 24 hours.
Yeah 100cc is pretty low really. Cath Lab will give 150+, then send them to us for a CTA chest and we give them another 75cc. Our rads say you don't typically run into any trouble until you get into the 200cc range.
I've been a practicing radiologist since 2018, even did a Musculoskeletal fellowship, and this is the best scapular Y view I've ever seen. Bravo!!
Are Y views something the hospitals you read for do routinely? Our rads have basically eliminated them as part of shoulder series at this point. They say they are worthless, and now we just do AP/grashey/axillary or velpeau view.
When you show them their pictures, they will want to take pics of it on their phone which is a no no. Just avoid it.
You speak about this as if all travelers are like this, and that's simply not the case. Sorry that's been your experience, but a traveler is someone who is easily adaptable and learns the protocols quickly and has experience knowing how to do their job without training. As someone who does it all from your beloved two views to lumbar punctures to the OR, I know I'm damn well worth my travel pay. P.S. traveling is a lifestyle decision, not just people looking for a fair wage. You can't begin to understand ALL of our reasons for choosing this. Check your boomer mindset.
Boomer 😂 I'm a millennial (though I hate to say that out loud). Honestly though, if you were worth that travel tech wage (where we are the travel techs make about 3k a week or so, so about $75/hr with the stipend) then a hospital would pay you that wage every day instead of paying more out of desperation.
Maybe in New York City a rad tech is worth that wage. But a tech in Nebraska, or Wyoming, or Arizona is not worth that wage.
Thanks for the response! My car is the only thing I own. I’ve never owned a house-only rented. The car payment is about $525; insurance is 220. I just recently got a new job bartending to bring in more money. After taxes I bring in about 3000/month. Hopefully with bartending (I just started this past week), I’ll be able to get back to bringing in more money. Hope that gives a good insight.
Soon as I read that you have never owned a house and your car payment is over 500 a month, the answer is simple. Sell the car, pay off your loan and buy a car that you can pay cash for or have a very low payment of 150-200. Why people spend over 500 a month for cars is beyond me. It's a depreciation machine, don't sink a lot of money in it.
ASRT CT Basics course. 16 hours lecture and quizzes. 100 percent for registry prep. Passed with no problems.
I did this and I recommend that nobody go through a college course for CT if they can find a site that will cross train for comps. I don't know why kids go spend 7k on an extra semester of college for CT when they can do this for cheap and then get paid usually to cross train... Our hospital pays you a rad tech wage while you get all your CT comps.
I just sat at a coffee shop and did the practice test questions in the test prep books.
Score another one for the meat grinder.
Teaching does not involve taking photos of screens with phones...
Yet this sub is FULL of pictures of x-rays taken on phones
Some states don't require ARRT certification, so that would be where those programs could be useful. The problem lies in the fact that even in those states, the hospitals typically require ARRT certification. If you want to take x-rays in a small family practice clinic or chiropractor office, you might be able to find a job with a degree from one of those programs if the job is in a state that doesn't have certification requirements.
Hi. Is going for a bachelors vs associates really any better? Both qualify me to sit for the same exam, which is my understanding. I asked a program leader, and they mentioned someone with a bachelors is likely to get hired over me. I was wondering if that would be negated once I have actually been in the field and have relevant work experience.
Depends on the bachelor's program too. Some you graduate with training in multiple modalities, some you graduate and only do x-ray. Going 4 years for only xray seems like a giant waste of time. College needs to rid itself of gen-ed garbage.
So, say theoretically someone has a lot of GI issues, to the point of needing a GJ. During the last 3 years, they’ve had to have a total of 7 or 8 pelvic/abdominal CTs, in addition to a PE study. How worried should this person be about their radiation exposure?
Not a lot probably, depends on their age. If they are 20, maybe a little bit. If they are 65, not much at all. I have people that are our frequent fliers who are in their 40s and have had upwards of 125 CTs and 150 x-rays.
What is he worried that you're cheating on him in your non-existent relationship? He sounds like an idiot.
Ahhhhhhhh love taking them like this to recycling instead of tossing them individually in the trash like some people I work with
Our recycling in won't take any plastics from the hospital due to contamination concerns so we have to throw them away.
If you're talking about inpatient scans, tell them that the patients are really needs to be below 65 and they can just let us know when they get it there. And if they give us pushback and say they can't have meds or something then we just scan retrospectively and pray that there will be something useful in there.
I personally didn't do them where I was, but I know from my coworkers that they wouldn't even send for the patient unless their heart rate was in a certain range, but we still did need an RN (either rad RN or the patient's RN) to give nitro once the patient was on the table.
I think they are asking about doing them as outpatients, so they have to be prepped in the department instead of by the floor as you are suggesting.
I always put the top of the light at the bottom of the sternum, I get my AP every time that way. Easier for me to palpate. I don’t like using the crest on men since their pelvis’s tend to be tall.
This is the way. You don't usually even need to palpate it, I find it pretty easy to just look at someone and imagine where the xiphoid is.
Those look like disc brakes for a go cart. What are those about 7 inch rotors lol
31 years and that's the first time you have seen it? I've been doing it for about 11 years and I have seen this a few times. One was on a coronary angiogram and I was asking the cardiac rad if we should label his vessels on the 3D and CMPRs the LAD/LCX/RCA or if we should call them the RAD/RCX/LCA.
By the looks of it, get in your new handy dandy motorized wheelchair and go get a new handicapped accessible van