A Respiratory Therapist Is Evaluating a Chest Radiograph of a Patient

question 3

Multiple Choice

A respiratory therapist is evaluating a chest radiograph of a patient taken 2 days after being admitted for significant respiratory distress right middle lobe pneumonia.Although the therapist notices a dramatic clinical improvement of the patient,the chest X-ray appears to be more radiopaque than the one on admission.What could explain this situation?

• A)The therapist is mistakenly looking at a different patient's film.
• B)Incorrect exposure of the image receptor may have happened.
• C)Although the patient looks better,the pneumonia is probably worse.
• D)This is a normal phenomenon.

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