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German term or phrase:
flache Inspirationslage
English translation:
poor inspiratory result, poor inspiratory film
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Bettina Grieser Johns
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flache Inspirationslage
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Beurteilung: Flache Inspirationslage wahrscheinlich durch adipösen Habitus bedingt.
Ich habe im Deutschen nur drei Treffer für diesen Begriff gefunden. Ich bin nicht sicher, worauf sich "flache" bezieht - irgendetwas ist flach bei der Inspiration, aber was? Im Englischen finde ich auch nichts Eindeutiges.
Wie immer, vielen Dank für Eure Hilfe!
Röntgenaufnahme des Thorax.
Beurteilung: Flache Inspirationslage wahrscheinlich durch adipösen Habitus bedingt.
Ich habe im Deutschen nur drei Treffer für diesen Begriff gefunden. Ich bin nicht sicher, worauf sich "flache" bezieht - irgendetwas ist flach bei der Inspiration, aber was? Im Englischen finde ich auch nichts Eindeutiges.
Wie immer, vielen Dank für Eure Hilfe!
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poor inspiratory result, poor inspiratory film
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"There are many reasons why a film may not be obtained in full inspiration. Massive obesity is a mechanical cause, pain in a patient postoperatively results in voluntary restriction, the cardiac patient with CHF is unable to displace the edema fluid in the 'waterlogged' lungs, and the patient with chronic restrictive lung disease cannot expand his/her chest to expected maximum because of scarring and loss of compliance in the lung tissue. For all these reasons, the term "poor inspiratory result" is used rather than "poor inspiratory effort". A film is considered to be in optimal inspiratory result when we are able to see the diaphragm crossing the tenth rib or interspace posteriorly or the eighth rib anteriorly. The reader is cautioned not to fall into the pitfall of diagnosing 'nondisease' in a patient with a poor inspiratory film.
https://books.google.de/books/about/Clinical_Radiology.html?...
"There are many reasons why a film may not be obtained in full inspiration. Massive obesity is a mechanical cause, pain in a patient postoperatively results in voluntary restriction, the cardiac patient with CHF is unable to displace the edema fluid in the 'waterlogged' lungs, and the patient with chronic restrictive lung disease cannot expand his/her chest to expected maximum because of scarring and loss of compliance in the lung tissue. For all these reasons, the term "poor inspiratory result" is used rather than "poor inspiratory effort". A film is considered to be in optimal inspiratory result when we are able to see the diaphragm crossing the tenth rib or interspace posteriorly or the eighth rib anteriorly. The reader is cautioned not to fall into the pitfall of diagnosing 'nondisease' in a patient with a poor inspiratory film.
https://books.google.de/books/about/Clinical_Radiology.html?...
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Comment: "Very difficult to choose the best answer here, as they are all possibles - thank you so much for your help! I went with Anne's answer because I think this expresses best not only that it is poor/shallow/suboptimal inspiration but also what is the consequence. And the reference explains it beautifully. Thanks again to all of you - don't know what I would do without you in these situations....!"
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Suboptimal inspiration
Optimal chest x-rays are obtained in deep inspiration. I would imagine that conditions such as obesity (or poor general health etc) would preclude adequate an adequate inspiratory effort.6
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shallow inspiration
There's shallow and deep breathing. Since the patient is obese, shallow inspiration (or shallow breathing) is more likely due to his/her body weight.
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Lungs not fully inflated on X-ray
This refers to the level of inflation/expansion of lungs for the purposes of taking an X-ray (rather than hypoinflation/collapse in conditions such as atelectasis)
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https://books.google.hr/books?id=yE8tBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA301&lpg=P...
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https://books.google.hr/books?id=yE8tBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA301&lpg=P...
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shallow breathing
the x ray is showing that the patient is not breathing deeply. Lage here refers to condition or situation. But I would leave that out you don't need it.
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