MRI Safety Week - Best Practices for Risk Reduction
Published: Jul 13, 2012
Next week, July 23 through July 29, is MRI Safety Week held every year in honor of Michael Colombini, the six year old killed in 2001 when a portable steel oxygen cylinder was brought into the MRI room during his exam.
The clinical benefits of the MRI scanner are indisputable but the MRI scanner has inherent dangers that must be addressed by hospitals and health care facilities. Risks inherent with the MRI scanner include but are not limited to:
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