Cardiac monitoring buttons
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Cardiac monitoring buttons
- External medical artifacts should be removed before taking a chest radiograph unless required for patient care
- If an artifact obscures a potential abnormality the image should be repeated
- This chest X-ray is otherwise normal and was not repeated
- More examples of cardiac artifacts
Barium artifact
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Barium artifact
- This chest X-ray was acquired shortly after a barium swallow
- The swallowed barium has reached the colon
- The image is otherwise normal and was not repeated
- Example of normal stomach bubble
- More abdominal artifacts
Jewellery artifact
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Jewellery artifact
- Some patients are unwilling or unable to remove piercings
- This nipple bar could not be removed
- More devices and artifacts