Posts Tagged ‘standard of care’
Monday, December 26th, 2011
Ambivalence is rampant with respect to MRI safety. “It hasn’t happened to us (so therefore the risk is just theoretical)”, or “MRI is the safe modality”, or “our last license or accreditation surveyor didn’t say anything, so we must be good.” In large part, I understand this let-sleeping-dogs-lie attitude (I don’t agree with it, but I can understand where it comes from). What I can’t abide, however, is hypocrisy with regard to MRI safety as typified by one entity’s ‘we’re the greatest thing for MRI safety since sliced bread’ PR.
Yes, I’m talking about the ACR…
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Tags: accreditation, ACR, American College of Radiology, diagnostic, gold seal, image quality, imaging, magnetic resonance, MRI, phantom, press release, promotion, radiology, safe practices, safety, standard of care, standards
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
“Tweet, tweet” is usually all I hear from little birdies… but one little bird that flew past my office recently had a surprisingly large vocabulary and told me of new requirements that will be introduced in the forthcoming 2010 update to the ‘Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities’ (commonly referred to as ‘Guidelines’).
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Guidelines, they are the design requirements that are cited by the Joint Commission and, at last count, 42 of the 50 U.S. State Departments of Health. Technically, they aren’t a building code, but the function in almost the exact same way. For the first time, the Guidelines are going to have specific MRI suite design requirements for patient safety.
2010 Guidelines
Click Here To Read About The Specific MRI Safety Design Requirements…
Tags: accreditation, ACR, architecture, building code, design, detection, detector, Environment of Care, ferromagnetic, guidelines, hazard, imaging, JCAHO, Joint Commission, metal, MR, MRI, radiology, regulation, resonance, risk, safety, standard, standard of care, suite
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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
As if you needed a personal invitation from me, here it is nonetheless. Please join me (and a several thousand of your colleagues) at the American Hot Rod Association [ahem] American Healthcare Radiology Administrators annual meeting in August. And though it may not really be my place to invite you to the conference, I do want to extend to you a personal invitation to 2½ special events that will happen during that week.
Click Here To Learn About Your Special 2½ Invitations…
Tags: accident, accreditation, ACR, Administration, AHRA, alert, American Healthcare Radiology Administrators, best practice, booth, Environment of Care, Gilk, healthcare, injury, JCAHO, Joint Commission, lawsuit, legal, liability, Mednovus, MRI, presentation, radiology, regulation, risk, safety, standard of care, trade show
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Nearly all MRI accidents that wind up the subject of civil lawsuits conclude the same way… in confidential settlement protected by a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). This makes it extremely difficult to get to the facts associated with any particular accident. Currently the highest profile MRI accident (the death of a young boy from a flying oxygen cylinder) is in pre-trial litigation and is our best window into the legal responsibility of Technologists and providers. Today, however, I learned of another suit in which a Tech is suing her former employer for willfully putting off needed system repairs that compromised image quality and diagnostic value.
Click to Read More About This MRI Safety Lawsuit…
Tags: coil, colombini, daignostic, death, diagnosis, fatality, FL, Florida, Horizon, image quality, injury, lawsuit, magnetic, maintenance, MRI, news, practice, protocol, resonance, safety, standard of care, suit, Technologist, television, TV, Westchester
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