Your course assessment certificateĪ certificated course completion assessment is available which is based on the material in this tutorial and the related sections.Īll the certificated online course completion assessments provided by Radiology Masterclass award CPD/CME credits in accordance with the CPD Scheme of the Royal College of Radiologists, London, UK. This tutorial is suitable for clinicians working in the emergency department setting who require a knowledge of trauma X-ray interpretation. The patient can be clinically cleared provided the following apply: The patient is not high risk (age >65 yr or dangerous mechanism or paresthesias in extremities). Examples of common injuries seen on X-ray are shown, with normal images for comparison.īefore starting this tutorial you should be aware of principles as discussed in the ' General Principles' and ' Introduction to Trauma X-ray' tutorials. To be clinically cleared using CCR, a patient must be alert (GCS 15), must not be intoxicated, and must not have a distracting injury (eg, long bone fracture, large laceration). This tutorial discusses the X-ray appearances of trauma to the axial skeleton. Trauma X-ray - Axial skeleton - Gallery 2.Trauma X-ray - Axial skeleton - Gallery 1.cervical spine anteroposterior, lateral, and open mouth views MRI. Musculoskeletal X-ray - General principles Cervical spine CT sagittal reconstruction image.All images available should be viewed with reference to clinical findings.Many injuries to the axial skeleton visible on X-ray have characteristic appearances according to the region injured and mechanism of injury.