Question

MIG 126 Positioning II Case Study #2 Positioning for the Gastrointestinal Examination Description >> Your patient has arrived for his UGI series and the procedure begins. The patient thoroughly dislikes the taste of barium. In fact, you have had to coax him to drink the little he has so far. You know how important barium is for this study. Halfway through the fluoroscopic examination, the radiologist tells you that the patient has hypermotility of the GI tract. You are to give your patient more barium before each exposure taken. The radiologist completes her portion of the examination, leaving the patient in the right anterior oblique (RAO) position on the radiographic table. As you begin to prepare for your overhead radiographs, the patient continues to complain about drinking barium. What do you do? Identify the following: Goal: Observation Options and consequences Selection of the best option: Options and consequences: Option 1 Take time to explain once again how important it is for the patient to drink barium. Explain to the patient he has the right to refuse the examination. Option 2 Turn patient to the left posterior oblique (LPO) position and quickly prepare the room. Have everything ready, including the barium. Explain to the patient that you are doing everything that you possibly can to have him drink the least amount of barium that will produce a successful study. Option 3 Give the patient a water-soluble iodinated contrast medium to drink. This does not have the same texture or taste as barium.

Answer 1

Goal: to check the poisoning for the gastrointestinal tract through the radiography

Observation: there is hyper motility of the GI tract by the fluoroscopic examination , change in the taste as patient taken it before the exposing to the test.

Option and consequences : since the test is important to conduct and the patient also dislikes the taste of barium we can go the second option . To give him the water soluble iodinated solution which act as the contrast medium to drink. As they don’t have the same taste or texture as the barium. But it has its own effects like it give the warm, flushed sensation. But this discomfort wouldn’t last long . . it may sometimes causes nausea and vomiting , headache and itching problems etc. .but it perform the same function as the barium do they increases the contrast , which is helpful for the improve d pictures of inside our body .

Even , When iodine-based and barium-sulphate contrast materials are present in a specific area of the body, they block or limit the ability of x-rays to pass through. As a result, blood vessels, organs and other body tissue that