How to Read Chest X-Ray ( CXR ) in Emergency room

The CXR is the most frequently requested imaging investigation in hospital medicine. Despite this, many healthcare professionals lack the necessary confidence when interpreting CXRs.

Chest X-Ray is the most widely practiced imaging procedure and knowing how to read it is a basic skill for every medical student or practitioner.

Whatever your specialty - as an FY1, FY2 or Specialist Registrar - this one-day course will help you with accurate CXR interpretation in the Emergency department.

The teaching format is based on short lectures, interactive tutorials and the opportunity for you to analyse sets of images accessed via your own computer.

This course will help you start from the very beginning till you are able to read any CXR in the Emergency room.

In this course:

• We will start with a quick anatomical review of which structures we see on a CXR.

• Then we will start learning to assess CXR in detail following the mnemonic "ABCDEFGHI":

  • A for Airways

  • B for Bones

  • C for Cardiac Silhouette

  • D for Diaphragm

  • E for Effusions

  • F for Lung Fields

  • G for Gastric shadow

  • H for Lung Hilum

  • I for Instruments

And with pictures of CXR Inside each lecture, you will see the progress yourself!

Just stay with me for the next two hours and you will gain a skill that you will always need.