A cat has just arrived at the clinic with obvious trauma to…

A cat has just arrived at the clinic with obvious trauma to the hind end after being attacked by a much larger dog in the client’s neighborhood.  The clinician wants you to perform a standard two – view radiographic study of the pelvis.  The clinician warns you that on physical exam there appears to be a fracture of the pelvis.  You must obtain the radiographs, but you don’t want to risk further injury to the poor cat. Which views will you take to complete this study?

You have completed the technique chart for the canine/feline…

You have completed the technique chart for the canine/feline abdomen and want to create the technique chart for bone and joint next. The grid ratio for your machine is 16:1. You look at the abdominal technique chart and see that for a patient measuring 9 cm, you used a kVp of 58 and an mAs of 5.0. For this same patient in your bone/joint technique chart, what should the kVp and mAs be? Grid ratio Added mAs 5:1 x2 6:1 x2-3 8:1 x3-4 12:1 x4-5 16:1 x5-6