Innovative method of cross infection minimization using novel through-glass technique in portable chest radiography / Mohd Hafizi Mahmud ... [et al.]
Portable chest radiography is a standard radiological procedure routinely used for bedside patients. COVID-19 pandemic has presented several challenges, including cross infection between the healthcare personnel and patients and a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE). Hence, healthcare pe...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | en |
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2022
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/112429/1/112429.pdf https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/112429/ |
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| Summary: | Portable chest radiography is a standard radiological procedure routinely used for bedside patients. COVID-19 pandemic has presented several challenges, including cross infection between the healthcare personnel and patients and a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE). Hence, healthcare personnel-patient contact should be minimised as best as possible. This project is aimed to evaluate the image acceptability of portable chest radiography using through-glass technique as an innovative method in radiological procedure. On the hospital bed, a 35 cm x 43 cm imaging plate was arranged against the anthropomorphic thorax phantom, and the portable x-ray machine was positioned at a 200 cm source-image-distance (SID). The phantom was exposed using the standard and through-glass techniques with two exposure parameters of anterior-posterior (AP) chest radiography (80 kVp, 5 mAs and 90 kVp, 5 mAs). The radiographs were blindly reviewed by two senior radiographers based on the standard diagnostic image acceptability criteria. An inter-rater reliability using Cohen’s kappa analysis was performed to determine the consistency among the evaluators. A statistically significant with moderate agreement between the two evaluators was observed for the chest radiographs from both sets of exposure parameters (kappa value, k = 0.6, p < 0.05). Portable chest radiography using through-glass technique showed equivalent image quality of the standard chest radiography technique and complied with the diagnostic image acceptability. This novel technique has a potential clinical application to minimise cross-infection risk during the radiological procedure. |
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