Chest x-ray: checklist to examine

“Pamela Found Our Rotation Particularly Exciting; Very Highly Commended Mainly ‘Cus She Arouses”

• Patient details
• Film details
• Objects (e.g. lines, electrodes)
• Rotation
• Penetration
• Expansion
• Vessels
• Hila
• Costophrenic angles
• Mediastinum
• Cardiothoracic Ratio
• Soft tissues and bones
• Air (diaphragm, pneumothorax, subcut. emphysema)