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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.
