MRI Safety Week was founded several years ago to celebrate and promote excellence in MRI safety, and always occurs around July 27th. This is the anniversary of the tragic 2001 MRI death of young Michael Colombini, age 6, who died when a portable steel oxygen cylinder was brought into the MRI room during his exam.
There are a number of special activities that professional MRI providers undertake during this week. Some involve patient education. Some are targeted towards informing referring physicians. Often MRI Safety Week is the trigger for annual renewals of safety training or inspections of MRI safety features (when was the last time everything in and on the crash cart was tested, or the cryogen vent pipe was inspected?).
This year, the people at Mednovus, manufacturers of the SAFESCAN® line of ferromagnetic MRI screening tools, are pleased to bring you a Jeopardy-styled MRI safety quiz game in a PowerPoint presentation. Simply download the file, run the program and follow the instructions in the 'presenter's notes' section.
MRI safety is serious business, but that doesn't mean that we can't have fun learning about the different elements of it. We encourage you to download the file below for a fun and enlightening MRI safety review with your MRI staff, or the version for non-MRI staff...
Technologists Version |
Layperson's Version |
| Click HERE for the MRI Safety Jeopardy-styled quiz | Click HERE for the MRI Safety Jeopardy-styled quiz |
| And click HERE if you'd like the correct responses in a separate PDF document | And click HERE if you'd like the correct responses in a separate PDF document |
Thank you for being a part of the Mednovus family and for using the SAFESCAN® products and services to help protect your patients, staff, and millions of dollars of MRI equipment.
On behalf of our company, employees, clients and colleagues, we wish you a happy and productive MRI Safety Week!
Respectfully,
Tobias Gilk, President & MRI Safety Director
Mednovus, Inc.
Tobias.Gilk@Mednovus.com
(913) 515-8449
