Impressive

I saw THE most impressive chest x-ray yesterday. My colleague, L, was asked to see a man who dropped his saturations last night to 76% on errmmm, I can't remember how much oxygen. So she decided to request a chest x-ray in order to further investigate the problem.

We took the x-ray film from its folder, and gosh, we saw total right lung collapse! His entire right lung field was white on the x-ray and, he had the most impressive tracheal deviation I have ever seen!! The entire trachea was shifted to the right, and we could even see the branching of the bronchus, shifted into the right lung field. It was the perfect x-ray to show medical students.

Apparently, it was caused by mucus plugging, and L had to ask the on-call physiotherapist to come in to give us a hand.