18 CARE OF PATIENT IN DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY

This manoeuvre demands a certain amount of room. If space is not

it may be possible
available to put the stretcher at right angles to the table,
to put the stretcher in tandem with the table, its head at the table's foot.
The radiographers have then to take a few steps sideways with the patient
in their arms and place him on the X-ray

2).
table (Fig.

STRETCHER

X-RAY TABLE

RADIOGRAPHERS

Fig. 2. Second arrangement of stretcher relative to the X-ray table.

If

not possible, the stretcher may be set parallel to and at little

this
is

a
distance from the X-ray table, its head to the table's foot. The radio

graphers will then place the

by
patient on the X-ray table
turning 'in formation' through
X-RAY TABLE one hundred and eighty degrees
(Kg.
3).

method of lifting which has

A

been seen in use when space

is
very tight consistsof placing the
stretcher parallel to the X-ray
table and making use of six lifters.
RADIOGRAPHERS They stand thus: three on the far
side of the X-ray table, spaced to

CD CD CD — take the patient's shoulders, pelvis

1

and lower limbs, and the other

three opposite to them on the far
\

side of the stretcher. The patient

0

PATIENT
of six
by

then lifted the team

is

of the sheet or
/

grasping the edges

STRETCHER blanket on which he lies. can
It

be done, but an uneconomic

is
it

Fig. Third arrangement of stretcher relative

3.

to the X-ray table. application of effort, for the three