Shoulder - Special Views - Video Lesson

In this view, we will be demonstrating the scapular y view of the shoulder. The scapular y view of the shoulder should be performed with the patient standing at the upright buccy or lying prone on the radiographic table with a forty inch source to image distance and no tube angulation. The scapula y view is done for a trauma view for possible dislocation of the shoulder. We're gonna have the patient stand at the upright and the injured shoulder is up against the IR. In this case, it is a right shoulder injury. I have a right marker on the IR. We are going to place the patient in an RAO. However, the obliquity is about forty five to sixty degrees. And that is so that the scapula will form a ninety