Finished My Comps!!!!!!

Well I am so relieved that I was able to finish my comps, it's been a struggle but I did it. I was able to comp out on a knee, C-spine, and L-spine. I have one more day of clinicals this semester and I am finished. It has been a very interesting, fun and stressful semester and I feel that I have learned allot but I know I have so much more to learn. My clinical site has invited me to stay and do my Fall clinicals with them and have re-arranged a new schedule so I will be training with the lead tech 2 days a week which will give me better consistency, and I think this will make the learning of each exam a little bit easier. I was switching between 3 different techs and I was getting very confused with the different ways they would all tweak the perameters. At first I thought that would be a good thing, but after doing it for awhile I was interchanging all their different ways, which made it very confusing for me. So I am glad for the change. I really like my facility and it is so convenient for me being it is only about 5 minutes away. I wish I had it so easy with work, but I guess we can't have everything all the time.

This week on top of my last comp, I was able to see some different exams that the tech said they did not do very much. One was an MRA of the renal arteries and the other was a lower extremity run off. The lower extremity run off was the very rare exam. I only got to see part of it due to the patient was claustrophobic and could not do the first part after the injection. We did do the exam of the lower legs using the abdomen coil and picked out the best image showing the arteries and then watched the flow and tried to time it using a calculation she called FBI. She stated it was something that Toshiba had special and that is one of the reasons they picked Toshiba 1.5 over the other brands of magnets. It was pretty interesting how she calculated it and then she would compare it to the scans done after the injection. She explained that the scans done after the injection would start in the Abd. and then capture the flow all the way to the toes. We saved the leg scan without and will retrieve it when the patient comes back with sedation next week to finish the scans with contrast. I might go in to see the rest of it just for the learning experience. Well for now have a good weekend and I will post later.