CT Chest Interpretation

In this lecture consultant Radiologist Dr Nicola Schembri will review the nuts and bolts of CT Chest Interpretation relevant to physiotherapists working in the cardiorespiratory sector.

This lecture will review the following learning items:

• Basic orientation into CT interpretation and landmarks
• The benefits of CT over other radiological procedures
• Identification of respiratory pathologies including: bronchiectasis, interstitial lung disease, emphysema, pleural effusions, Covid-19 and pneumothoraces.

Presenter

Dr Nicola Schembri

Nicola Schembri graduated from the University of Malta, Medical School in 2001. She obtained her radiology specialist training in the UK, where she worked as an NHS Consultant Radiologist in the latter years prior to emigrating to Australia in 2017 where she now offers a clinical emergency and elective teleradiology service with Telemedicine Clinic (TMC), Australia (Ltd) to several UK NHS hospitals. She recently also served a short-term consultant radiology clinical service in the South Island, New Zealand, where she now has full vocational registration with a scope of practice in Diagnostic and Intervention Radiology.  While in the UK Nicola nurtured a subspecialist interest in thoracic imaging with interstitial lung disease as her niche specialist field. Her thoracic expertise developed further through her intense reporting sessions in traumatic and non-traumatic emergency imaging with the TMC UK oncall section and by contributing to the various chest imaging multidisciplinary meetings in both the UK and New Zealand. She is also an active accredited radiologist for the NHS England Lung Health Check screening program. Nicola is an author contributor in several peer-reviewed journal articles on pulmonary fibrosis and bronchiectasis published in the international leading peer-reviewed journals “Thorax” and “Chest”. She held a leading role in medical education both in medical student and radiology specialist registrar training programs in the UK and is a current lecturer in medical education at the Australian National University Medical School.

Host

Cardiorespiratory National Group

Date of Live Event

27/07/2022 

CPD Hours

2.5 Hours

Please note: The content of this Lecture on Demand (LOD) was captured via a recording of a live lecture at the APA premises. Due to the nature of the event and the recording method, this LOD may not have captured some of the questions/comments from live audience. Your purchase of this module indicates your acceptance of this.