X-ray Rocks: Post Mortem

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Monday, October 20, 2008

Post Mortem

AP skull: 39 y/o male suicide - shotgun

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2 comments:

Mary said...: Ewwww....

Um so the x-ray was verifying his brain was no longer in his skull? Or that he fractured some stuff?; October 31, 2008 at 1:47 PM
X-ray Rocks! said...: I think we x-ray them to prove that it was suicide. This last month I've gone to the morgue A LOT. And they've all been suicides (and one baby).; October 31, 2008 at 9:55 PM

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Glossary

abd - abdomen
AP - anterior/posterior i.e. front to back
Cath - catheter
CR - computed radiography, digital capture of rad images
CT - computed tomography
CXR - chest x-ray
Dept - department
Dr - doctor
ETOH - drunk/alcohol
LAT - lateral i.e. side
Med-eo - person who works in health care, with direct pt contact
PA - posterior/anterior i.e. back to front
PACS - picture archiving and communication systems
pigg-o-stat - device used to restrain infants
port - portable xray done outside the dept.
port mach - portable x-ray machine used to take x-ray outside dept.
Pt or Pts - patient or patients
rad - anything having to do with radiology
Rad - radiologist, doctor that reads x-rays
rad tech - radiologic technologist
US - ultrasound