2021 is the year to focus on MRI safety.
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Jul 28, 2021 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
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
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.
Jul 27, 2021 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
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
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.
Jul 26, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
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
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.
