Andrew Cheetham

Nuclear Medicine technologist and clinical tutor at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
- Opinions are my own personal thoughts.

[Andrew Cheetham @amcheetham]

What is the Professional Identity of Radiographers & Technologists in Nuclear Medicine? Volunteers wanted to take part in a research project.
The interview will take about an hour via webcam.
Get in touch via @amcheetham
For more details: https://t.co/MZvyf9rgkL

[Andrew Cheetham @amcheetham]

@alrightPET @ArumParthipun @josephobrien200 As someone said to me the other day. If you aren't evaluating your images, and if you don't have the freedom to use your professional judgment to decide what to do next, then you're a "button-pusher".
And trust me, I ain't no "button-pusher"!

[Andrew Cheetham @amcheetham]

@josephobrien200 @ArumParthipun At King's, we get our tech or rad applicants to evaluate about 6 different imaging studies for either clinical or technical queries. They're usually given 10 minutes to review them, just before they go into the interview.

[Andrew Cheetham @amcheetham]

@josephobrien200 Not heard of the ROPE before, but yes that sounds like a good way of thinking about quality.
I shall have to steal that one 😀

[Andrew Cheetham @amcheetham]

Good to hear, techs evaluating image quality.
? tissued dose
? rejected beats during gating

[Assoc Prof Daphne James @DaphneJamesUON]

Photo from 1988. I worked as a locum NMT at Royal Marsden in Surrey for a few weeks. Anyone know these ladies? @BNMSnews @SCoRMembers

[Scot Ramsay @ScotRamsay]

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[[email protected] @tomstafford]

The Galton Machine shows order from randomness. Each ball bounces left or right at random, 12 times, but together where they fall can be predicted - the normal distribution. This one made by: https://t.co/oI9wOGq7nG

[Frank Gaillard @frankgaillard]

Radiologists use words like "probably" all the time, but it's not terribly precise https://t.co/ry0V8biT6i #radiology #FOAMrad

[AuntMinnieEurope @AuntMinnieEuro]

Augmented reality headset bolsters reconstructive surgery https://t.co/XvyAC7tAxk #radiology

[Andrew Cheetham @amcheetham]

@ArumParthipun Though that then leaves the question of why the median dose remained constant, though it might be that only a few techs are doing PET, and so they need to think about rotating staff.

[Andrew Cheetham @amcheetham]

Interesting data - not sure how we find out why the max dose a technologist receives is going up, but the median dose remains the same. https://t.co/LUP8zPVGBL

[@RadiologyEditor @RadiologyEditor]

May #19: Maintaining safety: Many more nuclear med exams, but average technologist radiation exposure relatively constant (2 mSv), although max exposure is increasing. https://t.co/lzyb4wHIZM @radiology_rsna #NucMed #RadPhys

[Andrew Cheetham @amcheetham]

@ArumParthipun The authors did postulate that as a possible reason, but because they didn't have the data to prove it. It would certainly be worth looking at.

[Andrew Cheetham @amcheetham]

@AdamIanKing As a committed Christian, I presume you follow the biblical requirements not to eat bacon? Or are you more of a pick and mix your bigotry type of Christian?

[Andrew Cheetham @amcheetham]

Tonight's thunderstorm is pretty impressive - trying out my mobile camera's special features for taking photos of the lightning

[Andrew Cheetham @amcheetham]

@PMccoubrie Great paper, thanks. Especially like the references to the CIA with use of spy words 😀

[Andrew Cheetham @amcheetham]

Sorry but disagree - having reported the CT, you then have to effectively communicate that info - and as the song goes "a picture says a thousand words" https://t.co/9f2IwB2yo9

[Paul McCoubrie @PMccoubrie]

Rule 80 / / Ignore 3D recons

No self-respecting radiologist would ever use them for primary diagnosis. And, no, they aren't interesting or clever either. They are mere pretty baubles to keep the surgeons happy

#RulesofRadiology

[Andrew Cheetham @amcheetham]

You're absolutely right, as my colleague Sara Soares from @KingsCollegeNHS demonstrated at BNMS this year a 3-bed SPECT/CT Tektrotyd is superior to WB https://t.co/3gpH5EXRND

[Arum Parthipun @ArumParthipun]

@amcheetham Couldn't agree more, except #SPECTCT rather than SPECT. Who needs planar images anyway?

[Andrew Cheetham @amcheetham]

And maybe sometimes we should do a SPECT in the first place, rather than a planar followed by a SPECT when we realise that the planar doesn't answer the question! https://t.co/zVGLntlzul

[TdotC @Das_is_me]

Definition of reSPECT in nuclear medicine.

[Andrew Cheetham @amcheetham]

KingsCollegeNHS is one of the few centres running the apprenticeship scheme for nuclear medicine technologist, and I can certainly say that we wouldn't have been able to convince the Trust management if there was only £12k of funding https://t.co/RKjWTxvWgP