How to Read Chest X-Ray - From Zero to Hero

Name: How to Read Chest X-Ray - From Zero to Hero
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Master reading CXR entirely from the very basics until professionality with tens of examples & quizzes.

Last updated 2/2020

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What you'll learn

7 sections • 17 lectures • 1h 51m total length

Assessing Image Quality11:35
In this lecture, you learn how to assess image quality following the mnemonic RIPE for Rotation, Inspiration, Projection, and Exposure.
Assessing Image Quality Quiz
Anatomical Review11:33
Now we will review together the most important anatomical concepts to be able to interpret a CXR and we will go through ABCDEF system.
Anatomical Review Quiz

Mediastinum11:11
Master mediastinal evaluation on chest x-ray by compartments—anterior, superior, middle, posterior—recognize widening on PA and lateral views and apply compartmental differentials (goiter, thymus, lymph nodes, teratoma, lymphoma, TB, sarcoidosis).
Mediastinum Quiz
Cardiac Silhouette5:28
Cardiac Silhouette Quiz
Congenital Heart Diseases on CXR2:54
Assess the chest x-ray for congenital heart disease by evaluating pulmonary vasculature, aorta and pulmonary artery size, and recognize left-to-right shunt patterns of increased or decreased flow.

Pneumothorax3:51
Pleural Effusions6:36
Identify pleural effusions on chest x-rays by distinguishing free-flowing vs related effusions, and recognizing the meniscus sign and posterior costophrenic blunting.
Miscellaneous Pleural Disease2:20
Identify pleural plaques and pleural thickening on chest x-rays and CT, including asbestos-related plaques with holly leaf sign, and recognize pleural metastases and post-inflammatory thickening.

Lung volumes2:25
Diffuse Lung Opacities - Reticular Pattern9:49
Diffuse Lung Opacities - Alveolar Pattern6:54
Assess the diffuse alveolar pattern on chest x-ray by recognizing fluffy opacities, indistinct margins, and air bronchograms with the silhouette sign, noting edema, pneumonia, hemorrhage, and aspiration as causes.
Diffuse Lung Opacities - Nodular Pattern5:00
Diffuse Lung Opacities Quiz
Focal Lung Opacities - Part 15:32
Focal Lung Opacities - Part 26:18
Focal Lung Opacities Quiz

There is no pre-requisite, but with some basic medical background it would be perfect.

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.

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

In this course:

We will start with how to assess the four basic pillars of image quality using the mnemonic "RIPE".
Then we will go through a quick anatomical review of which structures we see on a CXR.
Then we will start learning to assess CXR in details following the mnemonic "ABCDEF":
- A for Airways
- B for Bones
- C for Cardiac Silhouette
- D for Diaphragm
- E for Effusions
- F for Lung Fields

And with a quiz after every 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.

Medical Students
Healthcare Professionals
Anyone interested in learning how to read a chest x-ray and know nothing about it.