Posts Tagged ‘MAUDE’
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
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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
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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.
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Tags: accident, accreditation, FDA, imaging, injury, magnetic, MAUDE, MRI, never event, patient, radiology, regulation, resonance, risk, safety
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
For a couple of months, at least, the FDA’s MAUDE database wasn’t displaying all of the accident narratives online… This appears to have been fixed!
A number of the MRI accident reports, when the narratives weren’t appearing, were little more than the name and mailing address of the MRI manufacturer. Today, if you want to read about the MR Technologist who had a pair of scissors magnetically-impelled into his forehead, you can do so. So Click Here If You’re Curious…
Tags: accident, database, device, FDA, hazard, imaging, injury, magnetic, MAUDE, MDR, medical, missile, MRI, projectile, resonance, risk, safety, scissors
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
I like to keep my finger on the pulse of MRI accidents and safety issues. One consequence of this is that I frequent the FDA’s MAUDE database (MAUDE is a tortured acronym for medical device user-reported mishaps). I have long criticized the FDA for their half-hearted efforts at collecting MRI accident data (which, in fairness, appears to be as much a product of congressional limitations on the FDA’s power as anything else), but MAUDE has been the only national database for these accidents that is publicly accessible.
Every so often there is an MRI accident description that is so stunning that it sends a jolt through me, reminding me why I do what I do. This is the entry that I came across just two weeks ago…
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Tags: accident, database, death, FDA, imaging, injury, magnetic, MAUDE, Medwatch, missile, MRI, online, projectile, radiology, report, resonance, safety, scissors, Technologist
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
RT-Image brought a stack of their August 3rd issue to the AHRA and handed them out at the MRI safety presentation. Why (apart from general publicity)? Because the primary thrust of the issue was on many aspects of MRI safety. This issue has feature articles on the new MR Conditional pacemaker, infection control in the MRI suite, and even one that I wrote for them…
Click Here For A Link To Tobias’ Article For RT-Image…
Tags: accident, AHRA, article, hazard, imaging, injury, liability, magnetic, magnetic resonance, MAUDE, MR, MRI, patient, radiology, risk, RT-Image, safety
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
When I was eight, these words struck fear in my heart. It didn’t matter how small the infraction I committed was (or if there even was an infraction to begin with), I would beg the other kid to not ‘tell’ whoever it was that they were planning to tell. It may have been their kindly grandmother that they planned on telling, but in my mind it was always some 7-foot troll who would have undoubtedly come outside and chewed me to bits.
It took a while, but slowly I realized that tellin‘ and getting in trouble were two, very different things. This is a lesson that we in the MRI community would do well to learn regarding accidents.
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Tags: accident, accreditation, authority, death, event, FDA, injury, magnetic, MAUDE, MDR, MRI, near-event, near-miss, patient, Pennsylvania, photo, picture, pre-screen, projectile, regulation, regulatory, report, resonance, safety, screening
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Def. Hyperbolic: Mathematical curve functions which have relations to the hyperbola.
Def. Hyperbolic: Rhetorical exaggeration or diminishing beyond the fact; exceeding the truth; as, an hyperbolical expression.
I have this sense that some feel that virtually all talk of MRI accidents is hyperbolic, or exaggeration. To those who believe this, I say there is a truth buried in this thought, but it’s not what they may think…
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Tags: accident, burn, data, FDA, frequency, hyperbola, hyperbole, injury, magnetic, management, MAUDE, missile, MRI, projectile, radiology, rate, risk
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Well, hopefully accidents didn’t jump a full 30%, but the number of reports to the FDA of MRI accidents did! This makes four consecutive years in which the numbers of MRI accident reports have climbed, increasing a whopping 270% above the 2004 rates!
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Tags: accident, data, death, fatal, FDA, frequency, increase, injury, magnetic, MAUDE, MRI, numbers, rate, resonance, surge
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
27.5 million people… That’s how many people the healthcare market research company IMV estimates received MR exams in the US in 2007. Other estimates put the number over 30 million, but regardless of whichever number you use, we’re talking about a lot of people (27.5 million is roughly equivalent to those living inside all of the 13 most populous cities in the US)!
And when I say that these millions of people don’t want the 175% raise they’ve received, I’m not referring to their salary. No, the raise that these millions of people got — and most definitely don’t want — is … Click To Learn What 175% Raise They Got…
Tags: accident, detection, detector, FDA, ferromagnetic, magnetic, MAUDE, metal, missile, MRI, policy, pre-screening, procedure, projectile, protocol, safety, screening
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