Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #MRIsafety
Most recents (7)
🧵1. Thank you to the partners who have provided financial support to the the Kidney Institute of New Mexico.
#MedTwitter #NephTwitter
unmfund.org/fund/unm-kidne…
#MedTwitter #NephTwitter
unmfund.org/fund/unm-kidne…
🧵2. Your donations have directly translated into essential discoveries leading to improved human health. We appreciate the genuine relationship with our supporters and research participants.
#gadolinium #patientsafety #NephTwitter
#gadolinium #patientsafety #NephTwitter
🧵3. Financial support assisted with several publications throughout 2022, benchtop experiments, and the continuation of our clinical trials. Also, in 2022 we discovered that gadolinium-rich nanoparticles form in the human kidney from routine diagnostic care.
#MedTwitter
#MedTwitter
I am in awe of what @RadiologyACR has done in the realm of #MRIsafety best practices. Their 2020 Manual is unparalleled in both breadth and depth (acr.org/Clinical-Resou…).
That said, the ACR's MRI accreditation program requirements are largely bereft of it's own guidance.
That said, the ACR's MRI accreditation program requirements are largely bereft of it's own guidance.
This hasn't stopped @RadiologyACR from continuing to promote its MR accreditation programs' purported #MRIsafety assurances, including in prepared press-releases provided to accredited sites upon receipt of their MR accreditation.
Just today I was alerted to one of these (hdnews.net/2022/01/22/mri…), where the accreditation is purported to 'ensure the highest level of safety.'
Does this include minimum MRI safety training content / curriculum & frequency like @TJCommission's accreditation criteria?
No.
Does this include minimum MRI safety training content / curriculum & frequency like @TJCommission's accreditation criteria?
No.
So recently I did a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request regarding CMS radiology (MRI) safety standards at outpatient imaging centers.
The results were disturbing...
The results were disturbing...
The 2008 MIPPA act sect. 135, (3) provides that the "Secretary [of HHS] shall establish procedures to ensure that the criteria used by an accreditation organization…"
...and "standards that require the supplier have procedures in place to ensure the safety of persons who furnish the technical component of advanced diagnostic imaging services and individuals to whom such services are furnished"
Welcome to MRI Safety Week!
All this week we're highlighting various 'why' elements of MRI Safety Week and the Year of MRI Safety.
Today's 🧵: What has changed in MRI safety?
#MRI #MRIsafety #MRIsafetyweek
All this week we're highlighting various 'why' elements of MRI Safety Week and the Year of MRI Safety.
Today's 🧵: What has changed in MRI safety?
#MRI #MRIsafety #MRIsafetyweek
Immediately following the Colombini accident (see yesterday's thread), the @RadiologyACR convened what they called a 'blue ribbon panel' on MRI safety. That group published the first MRI safety best practice manual in 2002.
That specific document was expanded and re-released in 2004, 2007, 2013, and most recently in 2020.
The UK's @MHRAgovuk released MRI safety guidelines in 2007. Also in 2007, the @RANZCRcollege released their MRI safety guidelines (borrowing heavily from the ACR's publicaitons).
The UK's @MHRAgovuk released MRI safety guidelines in 2007. Also in 2007, the @RANZCRcollege released their MRI safety guidelines (borrowing heavily from the ACR's publicaitons).
Welcome to MRI Safety Week!
All this week we're highlighting various 'why' elements of MRI Safety Week and the Year of MRI Safety.
Today's 🧵: The accident that started contemporary MRI safety
#MRI #MRIsafety #MRIsafetyweek
All this week we're highlighting various 'why' elements of MRI Safety Week and the Year of MRI Safety.
Today's 🧵: The accident that started contemporary MRI safety
#MRI #MRIsafety #MRIsafetyweek
20 years ago -almost to the minute- a young boy was being taken to the MRI of the county hospital.
A few days prior he had an accident on the playground and a CT scan of his skull revealed a brain tumor that would likely have killed him, had it not been found.
A few days prior he had an accident on the playground and a CT scan of his skull revealed a brain tumor that would likely have killed him, had it not been found.
The boy was transferred from the community hospital to the larger county hospital, where the tumor was confirmed, and brain surgery was planned.
The surgery was a success, and all indications were that the tumor was fully removed and the boy would have a full recovery.
The surgery was a success, and all indications were that the tumor was fully removed and the boy would have a full recovery.
Welcome to MRI Safety Week!
All this week we're highlighting various 'why' elements of MRI Safety Week and the Year of MRI Safety.
Today's 🧵: What this week / year are about
#MRIsafety #MRIsafetyweek
All this week we're highlighting various 'why' elements of MRI Safety Week and the Year of MRI Safety.
Today's 🧵: What this week / year are about
#MRIsafety #MRIsafetyweek
MRI has been labeled as 'the safe modality' by virtue of the fact that it doesn't expose patients to ionizing (potentially cancer-causing) types of radiation that are inherent in X-rays. But this overly-simplistic naming fails to consider that MRI may have it's own risks.
This week, the week that includes the July 27th anniversary of perhaps the most infamous MRI fatality (sadly we now have to qualify it as 'perhaps' as there have been more fatal MRI incidents), is MRI Safety Week.
You're invited to join in the recognition of MRI Safety Week from July 27 (the anniversary of the infamous Colombini accident) through to August 2.
#MRIsafety #MRI #Radiology #PatientSafety
(1/11)
#MRIsafety #MRI #Radiology #PatientSafety
(1/11)
Some of you may be thinking, 'hey, isn't MRI the "safe" imaging choice? We're supposed to worry about X-rays and ionizing radiation, and move to MRI when possible, right?'
Well a lot of elements baked into that conventional wisdom have been shifting over time...
(2/11)
Well a lot of elements baked into that conventional wisdom have been shifting over time...
(2/11)
Let's start with medical ionizing radiation exposure (predominantly experienced as X-rays). Concern about medical radiation exposure, and resulting technological advancements in imaging equipment, have substantially reduced per-exam patient exposure.
(3/11)
(3/11)
