FINAL REPORT
AP CHEST, 8:14 A.M. ON ___

HISTORY: ___-year-old woman, intubated after PEA arrest.

IMPRESSION: AP chest compared to ___:

There is no pneumothorax.
ET tube is in standard placement.
The heart is mildly to moderately enlarged.
Small pleural effusions may be present, not appreciably changed.
Right jugular line ends in the upper right atrium and should be withdrawn 1 cm to place it in the low SVC.
Esophageal temperature probe probably ends in the low esophagus.
An upper enteric tube passes into the stomach and out of view.
Previous asymmetric pulmonary consolidation, severe in the left lung has improved since ___.
Now there is greater bibasilar consolidation, essentially stable since ___.
The basal lung findings could be either atelectasis, dependent edema, or even pneumonia, in combination.
Pulmonary vascular congestion is also unchanged.
It is hard to say whether there is mild pulmonary edema.
If greater specificity is required from the imaging studies, then CT scanning should be requested.
