Adaptive Radiography with Trauma, Image Critique and Critical - Thinking

Informationen zum Autor After 32 years as a radiography program director! Quinn B. Carroll recently took his retirement from Midland College in Texas as an assistant professor to write full time. Quinn has published three textbooks! workbooks and a number of journal articles. His newest publication is Radiography in the Digital Age! released in 2011 along with several instructional ancillaries. Quinn has presented over 120 seminars in Canada and the USA! and many dozens of presentations for state societies and the ASRT. Quinn received his Master of Education degree from the University of Wyoming and his BS degree from the University of Utah! where he also obtained his radiography training at the University Medical Center. He is a dynamic! fun speaker and very excited to be part of meeting the challenge to embrace digital technology head on. Dennis Bowman RT(R)! CRT(R)(F) has been an active radiographer for over 35 years. He has been employed as a Staff Technologist at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP) in Monterey! California since 1990 and was the Clinical Instructor until 2014. With a digital dosimeter and a vast array of body phantoms! Dennis has put in hundreds of hours researching and studying digital techniques. In addition to the weekly classes he gives his students! Dennis has travelled internationally lecturing on how best to use and critique digital radiography. Because Dennis still is a "shooting tech" and CI! he truly understands all the problems techs run into and has figured out a fun and lighthearted way to explain it. Klappentext ADAPTIVE RADIOGRAPHY WITH TRAUMA! IMAGE CRITIQUE! AND CRITICAL THINKING! 1st Edition gives you a fresh perspective on radiographic positioning and critiquing in the real world. Unlike most radiography books! which approach topics in terms of the average patient under near ideal conditions! this text offers strategies and helpful tricks of the trade to employ when ¿the usual¿ does not apply. Based on developing adaptive thinking skills! the book shows you how to consider the paradigms and rules of radiology! examining and quantifying those that work while challenging those that don¿t. Thorough discussions on adapting beam angles! beam divergence! expansion of the light field! and spacial relations in positioning deliver the foundations of radiography and introduce quantifiable! repeatable methods. ADAPTIVE RADIOGRAPHY WITH TRAUMA! IMAGE CRITIQUE! AND CRITICAL THINKING! 1st Edition also addresses trauma and mobile radiography and positioning! changes brought about by the advent of digital radiography! routine and trauma skull positioning! and much more. Real-life case studies and critical thinking questions help you apply methods to a variety of issues and clinical settings! developing the problem-solving skills you need for success in any radiographic field. Zusammenfassung ADAPTIVE RADIOGRAPHY WITH TRAUMA! IMAGE CRITIQUE! AND CRITICAL THINKING! 1st Edition gives you a fresh perspective on radiographic positioning and critiquing in the real world. Unlike most radiography books! which approach topics in terms of the average patient under near ideal conditions! this text offers strategies and helpful tricks of the trade to employ when "the usual" does not apply. Based on developing adaptive thinking skills! the book shows you how to consider the paradigms and rules of radiology! examining and quantifying those that work while challenging those that don't. Thorough discussions on adapting beam angles! beam divergence! expansion of the light field! and spacial relations in positioning deliver the foundations of radiography and introduce quantifiable! repeatable methods. ADAPTIVE RADIOGRAPHY WITH TRAUMA! IMAGE CRITIQUE! AND CRITICAL THINKING! 1st Edition also addresses trauma and mobile radiography and positioning! changes brought about by the advent of digital radiography! routine and trauma skull positioning! and much more....

Product details

• Authors: Dennis Bowman, Quinn Carroll, Quinn B. Carroll, Carroll/Bowman
• Publisher: Delmar Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2013
• EAN: 9781111541200
• ISBN: 978-1-111-54120-0
• Dimensions: 218 mm x 278 mm x 18 mm
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine