A Radiographer's Handbook of Hospital Practice

Outline of Contents: First contact with a patient; Principles in lifting and moving patients; The use of drugs and agents; Giving bedpans and urinals; Taking the radial pulse; Taking the oral temperature; Counting the respiration; Recording the blood pressure; Procedure for giving an enema; Laying up a sterile trolley; Technique for a simple sterile dressing; Assisting with an intravenous injection; The use of oxygen; Care before, during and after general anaesthesia; Accidents and dangerous occurrences; Action in the event of a fire; Radiological emergencies; Some first aid; An infectious patient in the ward; An infectious patient in the X-ray department; The patient with a tracheostomy; Tracheo-bronchial suction; The patient with a colostomy/ileostomy; The ten-day rule'; General abdominal preparation; Barium meal; Barium enema; Intravenous urogram; Oral cholecystogram; Intravenous cholangiography; Bronchography; Hysterosalpingography; Angiography; Lymphangiography; Radiculography/myelography; CT scans; Medical ultrasound; Radionuclide imaging.