title: Intensive care unit imaging.
abstract: Chest radiography serves a crucial role in imaging of the critically ill. It is essential in ensuring the proper positioning of support and monitoring equipment, and in evaluating for potential complications of this equipment. The radiograph is useful in diagnosing and evaluating the progression of atelectasis, aspiration, pulmonary edema, pneumonia, and pleural fluid collections. Computed tomography can be useful when the clinical and radiologic presentations are discrepant, the patient is not responding to therapy, or in further defining the pattern and distribution of a radiographic abnormality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 Southwest Sam Jackson Park Road, L340, Portland, OR 97239, USA. Electronic address: bentzm@ohsu.edu.
authors.forename: Matthew R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Bentz
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Radiology, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 Southwest Sam Jackson Park Road, L340, Portland, OR 97239, USA.
authors.forename: Steven L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Primack
mesh_terms: D016638:Critical Illness; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
keywords: Atelectasis; Chest radiograph; ICU; Imaging; Pulmonary edema