Case Study Of Littleton Hospital

This case study examines the findings for a patient admitted to Littleton Hospital in February 2016. This patient was initially radiographed on February 8th and again on February10th, 2016, when the radiology department received orders for a portable chest x-ray for an 82-year-old patient in the ICU. Two days prior, she had received a chest x-ray, post-thoracentesis. At that time, the radiologist, Dr. Orlin Hopper noted “a moderate right-sided pneumothorax” (2016). Upon review of the second set of images, the radiologist noted, “the right lung appeared unchanged with pleural thickening and air in the right pleural space, much of which was loculated” (Hopper, 2016). Dr. Hopper also noted a possible trapped lung.
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