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Article: MRI safety addressed in Sentinel Event Alert.(Magnetic resonance imaging)(NEWS FROM THE JOINT COMMISSION)(Report)
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- FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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Respiratory therapists were alerted to the safety risks of MRI's several years ago when a tragic accident claimed the life of a 6 year old child in New York. In this incident, a steel oxygen cylinder was apparently drawn into the magnetic core of the MRI, striking the pediatric patient in the head. The patient died two days later. Although accidents and injuries related to MRI's are extremely rare, The Joint commission had received several reports of MRI incidents. This resulted in The Joint Commission releasing a Sentinel Event Alert entitled "Preventing accidents and injuries in the MRI Suite" in February 2008.
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