Top 10 Chest X-Ray Misdiagnoses to Avoid on Call

In this talk, we’ll review ten top misdiagnoses to avoid when you’re reading chest x-rays on-call, in addition to realistic benchmarks for a radiologist reading chest x-rays prospectively.
00:00 - Introduction
00:14 - Overlooking a Retained Foreign Body
04:37 - Inaccurately Assessing Line/Tube Location
09:44 - Misinterpreting Pneumothorax
13:19 - Missing a Pleural Effusion
17:32 - Misinterpreting Pulmonary Edema
24:30 - Overlooking a Lung Nodule
27:02 - Missing Active Tuberculosis
30:35 - Failing to Recognize a Mediastinal Abnormality
39:00 - Missing Pneumoperitoneum
41:53 - Confusing an Anatomic Variant or Artifact for Pathology

[@squirrel9999]

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[@joshuaviana8184]

Excellent work!

[@WindyNight114]

Amazing talk!

[@michaelorfanides1413]

Hello Dr. I'm an X-ray tech newly licensed in CT, this is an outstanding presentation, it's unbelievably important. And this attack, I appreciate this because it helps me to realize how important I need to spend time positioning the patient to get a great diagnostic film for the Radiologist. I'm trying to get a CT position, but looking at this makes me appreciate how basic Radiography is so important. Thank you Mike in Los Angeles

[@michaelorfanides1413]

Also doctor, I'd like to mention your presentation in speaking is beyond outstanding and your command of the medical terminology as it relates to the English language is beyond excellent. Thank you so much for this combat makes me wish I was in med school to become a Radiologist. Thank you Mike and Los Angeles(you are an outstanding instructor).

[@uhurupeaksurvivor]

As always amazing talk, you are truly the best here on KZbin! At 29:40 ("err on the side of being sensitive instead of being specific in TB") you mean that we should rather order a few too many unnecessary expensive tests than too few (in case the chest x-ray is not obviously normal), right?

[@radiologyframeworks]

Thanks for the kind compliment! Yes, basically err on the side of more false positives, just like for most screening tests.