MRI Safety: Understanding and Eliminating Risk at Your Facility 2025

MRI Safety: Understanding and Eliminating Risk at Your Facility The topics will include: ABMRS American Board of MR Safety Roles MRSO MR Safety Officer, MRMD MR Medical Director. MRSE MR Safety Expert, Patient Screening, Preparation and Monitoring Ferromagnetic Detection Patient Injury Examples and Methods of Prevention.

• Patient Injury Statistics
• Screening
• Patients
• Responsive
• Unresponsive
• Non-Patients
• Use of Ferromagnetic Detection Systems
• Screening prior to Zone III
• Entry protection prior to Zone IV
• MR Appropriate Attire
• Hearing Protection
• Preventing Patient Burns
• MR Safety Credentialing

Objectives

• Name the most commonly reported patient injuries
• Describe screening procedures for both patients and non-patients
• Describe how ferromagnetic detection can be integrated into an MR practice
• State the importance of dressing all patients in MR-appropriate attire
• Describe how to properly protect the hearing on anyone in the MR scan room
• Describe how to prevent patient burns
• List the benefits of MR safety credentialing