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MRI Safety Video Available Online
Just a very brief note to let you know that the video of my presentation from the April MRI Safety Workshop at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City is now available for online viewing. If you’d...
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MRI Accident Rates: It’s Not As Bad As Previously Reported…
IT’S WORSE! That’s right, the FDA has updated it’s MRI accident figures available online through the MAUDE database. We were alarmed and astonished when we thought that the rate of increases in MRI...
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CMS Asked To Review MRI For Pacemaker Patient Exclusion
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has opened a brief public comment period on a request to lift reimbursement restrictions on imaging pacemaker patients with pacemakers. Example of...
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NOT Magnet Safe Scissors!
Last year I highlighted an FDA MRI accident report in which a technologist had to have a pair of scissors surgically removed from his forehead after they’d caught him between the magnet-homing missile...
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Wired UK Feature On MRI Projectile Accidents
Color me flattered! (which I think is the color of that shirt in the illustration) Wired UK Illustration by Lee Hasler. Click for Wired UK source. The UK edition of Wired magazine just ran one of their...
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‘Learn The Things You Don’t Know That You Don’t Know.’
This, in essence, is the entirety of point-of-care safety standards for MRI. “Hey, you, MR technologist! Make sure you know what you’re supposed to know to keep people safe around MRI.“ Make no...
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Radiology Safety
Make no mistake, I believe that healthcare has a special obligation to protect the well being of our patients, our beneficiaries, our charges. When it comes to radiology, nuclear medicine and radiation...
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Calling Out Radiology Accreditation For MRI Safety (video)
This past weekend I was invited to present the findings of a study I did with my friend and colleague, Emanuel Kanal. Among his many accolades and credentials, Manny Kanal is the Chair of the ACR MR...
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PLEASE Don’t Call It The “MRI Safe” Pacemaker…
It’s almost enough to bring my high school English teacher back from the dead… me, railing on someone else’s vocabulary skills. What I’m talking about here is the new Revo pacemaker (formerly known as...
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(Not) Too Late For MRI Safety…
I apologize for my unusually long hiatus from posting. I’d love to tell you that I haven’t written because I’ve been so extraordinarily busy putting the final touches on a set of meaningful standards...
View ArticleChecklist for New Joint Commission Safety Requirements
While they released a Sentinel Event Alert on MRI safety in 2008, and while they’ve interpreted MRI-specific applications of a couple of hospital-wide standards (mainly, non-magnetic portable fire...
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