This article addresses the positives and negatives of having mobile radiography accessible to nursing homes. Many of the patients who are seen in radiography departments are geriatric. This comes with the body growing older, becoming more susceptible to disease and older patients often have falls, thus, breaking bones. “According to Graverholt and Riise almost 45% of admissions to hospital from nursing homes are related to falls, respiratory infections and diseases of the digestive system”(Kjelle & Lysdahl, 2017). With the large number of geriatric patients, comes the large amounts of travel for nursing homes to bring the patients to and from radiology departments. The time and money spent on travel could potentially be decreased if there …show more content…
“Transportation and new surroundings such as the x-ray department in a hospital may lead to increased anxiety or disorientation”(Kjelle & Lysdahl, 2017). Bringing geriatric patients with diseases such as, dementia, can be difficult because the patient can become more confused and upset. Having access to mobile x-ray units that could take the images without the patient doing as much as leaving their room, could be a very big benefit. This would leave the patient less anxious and confused because they are in an environment that they are comfortable in with people that they are comfortable around. Another way that mobile radiography units could be helpful in keeping the patients comfortable could be when they are in physical pain. When patients have accidents like falls, and break their already fragile bones, they become very upset and uncomfortable. Having to transport a patient to the emergency room or a hospital just for imaging is something that could be done in the comfort of their own room. Although most urgent bone breaks need to be dealt with right away at the hospital, some more minor injuries could wait until the mobile x-ray machine could reach them, which could potentially be the some amount of time it took to get the patient to the