Posts Tagged ‘imaging’
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
And what’s even more alarming is that 20% of those implant patients that get MRIs experience some sort of device malfunction afterward! And yet, the dangers of imaging these patients are not well known by the doctors who prescribe these imaging studies.
Click To Learn Just How Many Doctors and Patients Are Ill-Informed Of These Risks…
Tags: accreditation, ACR, Aging, American College of Radiology, contraindicated, Council, device, doctor, FDA, imaging, implant, Intersocietal Commission, JCAHO, Joint Commission, magnetic resonance, MRI, National, pacemaker, patient, regulation, scan, study, TJC
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
How to pick just one when there are a number of alarming, tragic, and needless MRI accidents to choose from? Let’s look at one that we can help the reader better imagine, the case of a pair of flying scissors that had to be surgically removed from a technologist’s forehead…
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Tags: accident, burn, death, detector, FDA, ferromagnetic, head, imaging, injury, magnetic, MAUDE, MRI, patient, pre-screen, radiology, resonance, safety, scissors, screen, skull, Technologist
Posted in Ferromagnetic Detection for MRI Safety, Other MRI Safety | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Go grab yourself a cup of coffee before you continue… this is going to be a long (for me, anyway) rant.
Ready? OK…
Let’s start at the very beginning (“what a very good place to start”). Click To Read The Whole Story…
Tags: accident, accreditation, ACR, American College of Radiology, ASHE, best practice, colombini, death, detector, ECRI, FDA, ferromagnetic, GE, guidelines, Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities, healthcare, imaging, injury, JCAHO, Joint Commission, law, lawsuit, legal, license, magnetic, magnetic resonance, Marzendorfer, Mednovus, metal, Michael, MRI, MRI Design Guide, radiology, regulation, require, safety, Siemens, standard, TJC, VA
Posted in Ferromagnetic Detection for MRI Safety, Other MRI Safety | 4 Comments »
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
This week the settlement documents were released — closing the chapter on the lawsuit that arose from the seminal event in MRI safety, the 2001 oxygen tank fatality of then-six-year-old Michael Colombini.
Click To Learn More About The Accident And Settlement…
Tags: accident, civil, colombini, death, fatality, ferromagnetic, hazard, imaging, injury, lawsuit, liability, magnet, magnetic, magnetic resonance, medical, metal, missile, MR, MRI, patient, projectile, radiology, regulation, resonance, safety, screening, suit, trial
Posted in Ferromagnetic Detection for MRI Safety, Other MRI Safety | 2 Comments »
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
It is the stuff of fabled oral-histories, often dismissed as MRI urban-legend. The patient is wheeled into the MRI room on a gurney that goes flying toward the scanner. “How on Earth could these accidents happen when we know about these risks,” the skeptics question? Almost never does more than a single fragment of information surface about these sorts of accidents and, without verification, nearly all accounts can be erroneously written-off as fiction. Or, that was until enough pieces fell into place to conclusively document a recent episode… Click Here To Read More About MRI Gurney Accidents…
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Tags: accident, accreditation, death, detection, detector, FDA, ferromagnetic, hazard, imaging, injury, magnetic, magnetic resonance, MAUDE, medical, metal, missile, MR, MRI, patient, projectile, radiology, regulation, resonance, risk, safety, screening, suit
Posted in Ferromagnetic Detection for MRI Safety, Other MRI Safety | 3 Comments »
Monday, January 18th, 2010
In the radiology community, it’s widely known… the economic downturn has eviscerated the equipment manufacturers’ sales of high-dollar imaging tools. The sour economy, coupled with the drastic cuts in MRI and CT reimbursements, in particular, have hit those two modalities hardest. Eighteen months into this economic malaise, are there signs of recovery? Apparently GE Healthcare thinks so…
Is GE Preparing For The MRI Rebound?
Click For Details On Thawing MRI Markets…
Tags: buy, economy, equipment, GE, growth, imaging, magnetic resonance, manufacturer, MRI, new, obsolescence, obsolete, radiology, sales, used
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
Yesterday I was provided a copy of an anonymized MRI accident / incident report which described how an MRI patient wearing a ThermaCare HeatWrap (something of a self-warming patch for muscle aches) had the wrap pulled off of them by the magnetic attraction of the MRI.
ThermaCare HeatWrap Products Contain Iron And May Be Drawn Into MRI Scanners
Click To Read More About This Incident And How To Prevent Similar Accidents From Occurring…
Tags: accident, detector, ferromagnetic, ferrous, hazard, heat, imaging, injury, iron, magnet, metal, missile, MRI, near-miss, projectile, resonance, risk, SAFESCAN, safety, screening, ThermaCare, wrap
Posted in Ferromagnetic Detection for MRI Safety, Other MRI Safety | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
But 2010 holds the promise of reversing course.
Throughout 2009, we saw tantalizing glimpses of potential MRI safety improvements, which repeatedly escaped becoming real. Here are my ‘Top 3′ near-miss opportunities of 2009 to substantially reshape MR safety…
Tags: accident, accreditation, ACR, American College of Radiology, best practice, FDA, imaging, JCAHO, Joint Commission, magnetic resonance, MRI, radiology, regulation, safety, TJC
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
This post attempts to draw-together two recent threads from here on the MRI Metal Detector blog. First, there was a long-running question about the FDA and their online-accessible database of medical device accidents which, for months, appeared to be malfunctioning, and recently was repaired. Second, there was my post in which I identified 5 MRI ‘Never Events’ which, if industry standard procedures are followed, should never occur.
Click For Several Recent Examples Of MRI Never Events…
Tags: accident, accreditation, FDA, imaging, injury, magnetic, MAUDE, MRI, never event, patient, radiology, regulation, resonance, risk, safety
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009
The Athens, Alabama, News Courier ran a story December 4th on their website about a 21-month boy who received a 3rd degree burn from an MRI. This hits square in the middle of the 5 MRI ‘never events’ that were enumerated a few months ago here on this blog.
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Tags: 3rd degree, Athens, burn, deposition, imaging, injury, magnetic, MRI, never event, payment, radiology, resonance, RF, safety, SAR
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