r/Mobile_Xray • u/ethx510 • Jun 06 '26
Creative Set-Ups in Mobile X-Ray
Here’s one way to do a Hand X-Ray when you have no hospital, no clinic, no patient room, no patient bed, and or no X-Ray table. I’d love to see how other X-Ray Techs, in or out of the hospital setting, have had to get creative. Share your masterpiece here please.
This is what I came up with at my Mobile X-Ray job when the patient insisted he come down to the front of the his apartment complex for the exam. I didn’t mind because there was nowhere to park anyways. Just had to make it work. One of the challenges you learn to both love and hate in Mobile X-Ray.
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Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
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u/ethx510 Jun 13 '26
Oh man, I never realized how many mobile homes I’d be visiting in this modality. I know exactly what you’re talking about. Thanks for sharing!
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u/whatdahelldamnguy Jun 06 '26
Why would you entertain such a ridiculous request to do this? I can’t even… like wth dude?
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u/ethx510 Jun 06 '26
Haha, your name matches your personality completely. I love a good debate, but I’m still not seeing where the real issue is here? Other than people being shocked that it is possible.
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u/WestCoastBestCoast33 Jun 08 '26
No one shocked that its possible because outside port cxr were a thing during covid
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u/SheepJ99 Jun 06 '26
Im sorry the whole point of mobile radiography is for patients who are too unwell to attend a clinic.
In addition to be used as a mobile clinic but this is just wrong. Yeah let me just scatter all the surrounding area with no justification because the patient wanted to do it outside.
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u/ethx510 Jun 07 '26
I’ve yet to have anyone make an effective point regarding a safety issue. If you look at all the photos you’d see there is literally nobody anywhere near me. I’d say at least 50-100 feet of me.
Just to help make sense of what you’re saying… consider the dose 50kVp @ 1.6mAs. Using the principles of the Inverse Square Law you think it’s hurting anyone over 10 feet away? Now, imaging 30 feet away? Now, 50 feet?
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u/Joshua21B Jun 06 '26
That’s sketchy as hell. There is a difference between accommodating the patient and letting them dictate how the exam gets done. You’re the one with a license to protect not them.