RAD CT Guide

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• Facial trauma:
  - Malocclusion, displaced teeth, fractured or loose teeth, mandibular fracture suspected
  - Epistaxis or nasal deformity visible or palpable, nasal fracture suspected
  - Facial elongation, midface fracture suspected
  - Frontal bone contusion, oedema or tenderness, frontal bone fracture suspected (may do combined CT Brain/facial bones)
  - Gingival haemorrhage, mandibular fracture suspected
  - Infraorbital nerve paraesthesia, midface fracture suspected
  - Malocclusion, midface fracture suspected
  - Mucosal haemorrhage, mandibular fracture suspected
  - Trismus, mandibular fracture suspected
  - Upper Jaw Pain, midface fracture suspected
  - Zygoma pain, midface fracture suspected
  - Zygomatic deformity, midface fracture suspected
  - Head trauma, CSF leak suspected (may do combined CT Brain/facial bones)

• Polytrauma, blunt, haemodynamically stable, facial injury suspected

• CSF Leak suspected, initial exam

• Deviated nasal septum, pre-operative planning

• Mucocele suspected, pre-operative planning

• Rhinosinusitis, chronic, pre-operative planning

• Silent Sinus Syndrome suspected, pre-operative planning

• Sinonasal polyposis, pre-operative planning

PATIENT PREPARATION

• Patient able to lie still for five minutes

• Not claustrophobic (sedation may be given)

• Cognitively capable of following basic instructions

• Metal artefacts removed from the region of interest

• No respiratory distress when lying supine

ANATOMY INCLUDED