MASTER the C-arm in Your X-Ray Department 

Hopefully you're having an easier time now. It's perfectly understandable, there's so many little things to think of at once, and on top of that the pressure of the situation. But you'll slowly shave off one difficulty at a time as you improve a certain aspect, and when you have less and less things to overwhelm you it becomes much easier to improve. Go easy on yourself. I'm the same way, but realize we weren't born knowing this stuff and we all learn at a different pace. Good luck!!

@@baphomick I feel you. I had a great easy understanding in class but totally blank out at the OR training. I have done, was after class, I would simulate a situation with other students and PRACTICE over and over again. It did its work. Good luck.

I hope you feel differently now! Would love to hear an update and what worked for you. I’ve been a tech for almost a year now and still don’t feel even close to comfortable with a c-arm. I always feel like such an idiot and seem to forget how it works every case. I hate OR for this reason! And I have so much anxiety going into my hospital shifts since I never know if/what surgeries may be occurring the next day

I know it’s been a while but I am a student who was in the same boat, I dead ass just practiced laterals and ap movement with a mayo table or on whatever table I can find

Same buddy

Thank you, Aris. I feel your pain and still remember those initial, tense experiences with impatient doctors. Every insight helps.

Are you finished with school?

@@mptoast4061 I will be in 7 weeks! And I actually loved the OR and was hired to work as a student tech in surgery at a level one trauma center.

How’d they go? And how is it being a radiology technologist?

@@mptoast4061 it’s going well so far!! Been graduated for almost 9 months now! And just working as a tech is going fine! 😊

How did it go, im applying to radiology next year.

@@radboy490 it went well techs were really helpful, my favorite rotations are portables and the ER. Good luck 🍀👍

@@maximalcrazyyt8380 im applying to the program next and hopefully get in, im looking at a lot of surgery videos and found it really interesting instead of being squeamish.

@@radboy490 orthopedic cases were my favorite cases and I remember the most important thing in my OR rotation is to come in at an angle and everything that is blue is sterile and should not be touched.

this is called fluoroscopy aka fluoro abbreviated. Yes, this is a LIVE x-ray when you step on the pedal or push the button down. think of it as a picture vs movie film. a picture is a still frame x-ray, a movie film with many pictures is fluoro. I don't think I have heard of constructing a 3d image based off using a C-arm-that would be more CT kidney stone uses lithotripsy to break up kidney stones or can be by passed i believe with stents in interventional radiology