 Later this month, we hope that you will join us in recognizing the week of July 23rd as the first ever MRI-Safety Week. This particular week marks the 5th anniversary of the most infamous MRI fatality in which a young boy died when an oxygen cylinder was brought into the scan room.
Join with us in promoting the significant safety advances in MRI as well as taking the opportunity this week presents to evaluate safety training, features and provisions at your facility. To aid facilities and vendors in promoting their efforts in MRI safety, as well as ideas meant to inspire evaluations of areas for improvement, we encourage everyone to visit the webpages dedicated to MRI-Safety Week. Read our first feature article, to the right, for more information.
At the end of this month, immediately following MRI-Safety Week, we will be in Las Vegas, speaking at the annual meeting of AHRA. Our two presentations, "MRI Suite Safety 101" and "MRI Suite Buildout 201" are both being made possible by the sponsorship of Lindgren RF Enclosures. Our sincere appreciation to the staff at Lindgren who have helped to create this educational opportunity.
In addition to Lindgren RF Enclosures, we have received additional support from Mednovus SAFESCAN, Kopp Development, The Sky Factory, Fiberoptic Lighting, and Mass Cabinets. We encourage everyone to visit the websites and exhibition booths of all the sponsors of our lectures and let them know how much you appreciate their support of educational programs.
For those of you who haven't been able to join us for our presentations so far this year, we are pleased to announce that we have received confirmation for an additional speaking engagement later this year. Information and link to this new presentation are below under "News Bite."
 For the dozens and dozens of you who responded, requesting to be notified of the release of the "MRI Suite Design Handbook," we have decided to include information from the forthcoming 2006 Update to the ACR White Paper on MR Safety. This means a short delay in the release of the book, but also means that, when released, it will have the most up to date information available.
Lastly, you may have noticed a couple of changes to the MRI Newsletter in this issue. Our distribution has simply grown too large to continue to send the Newsletter manually, so we've begun using a service to help us send the Newsletter and make it easier for you to update your information in the database. Look for information on these new features in the future. As allways, we hope that you will contact us if you have any questions about anything you read in the newsletter, or if we can be of any assistance to you.
Robert Junk, AIA, AHRA
Junk Architects, PC
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Encore! Encore! At the end of July we will be jetting-off to Las Vegas to present two sessions to AHRA. Until just a couple weeks ago, this was our last confirmed speaking engagement for the year, but we're pleased to announce another presentation! In October we will be speaking at the RBMA in Phoenix. Links to each of these are below.
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www.ahraonline.org (conferences page)
www.rbma.org (fall conference page)
MRI Newsletter - Article Archive Is Now On Line!
Don't forget that we now have the archive of previous MRI Newsletter articles available. Click here to see all the articles that are available.
While the archive index is available to everyone, only subscribers will be able to access the full text of the articles, except the published public issues.
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Special Public Access Article
MRI-Safety Week Is Upon Us!
By Robert Junk, AIA, AHRA and Tobias Gilk
Two weeks from the date of the mailing of this issue of the MRI Newsletter, we will be in the middle of the first ever MRI-Safety Week. In fact, two weeks from today will mark the day on which, five years earlier, the most infamous MRI fatality occurred. If you haven’t already done so, we encourage you to join with colleagues from around the world and take the week of July 23rd as your opportunity to reflect on your MRI safety successes and analyze your procedures, practices and environment to find out what you could improve upon.
Click here to be taken to the full article.
Buying An MRI:
A Tragedy In Two Acts.
By Tobias Gilk
All facilities planning for a new MRI share the same strikingly similar story. This is because they all share two things in common; the MRI Sales Rep and the MRI Technical Rep. This story is common to all MRI vendors and systems.
Act One starts with the Sales Rep. (typically young, attractive and full of charm) and the promise of a quick and painless installation and wraps up with the sales agreement. Act Two, however, introduces the antagonist, the vendor’s Technical Rep. (hopefully a person with a few grey hairs) who has the duty of pointing out all of the obstacles which will challenge the preliminary design, budget and timeline of the project.
Like formulaic plotlines that are recycled year after year, there are undoubtedly hundreds of similar iterations of the following story which can be told by hospitals and imaging centers across the country...
Click here to be taken to the full article.
MRI Safety In Canada
By Tobias Gilk
Among the many things that those of us in the United States would do well to learn from our Canadian neighbors are the French language (from Quebecers), the metric system, and MRI safety.
‘What,’ you say, ‘MRI safety?!’
Indeed, it seems that the Canadians may be poised to leap-frog their neighbors to the south in MRI safety by making safety provisions a requirement for MRI providers.
Click here to be taken to the full article.
Articles In The Works
In the upcoming months we will be sharing articles with you on a number of topics, from tools that are immediately applicable, to strategies that will help your facility on into the future. Several planned upcoming articles include:
- MRI Accident Data: What Every Facility Should Know
- Forthcoming MRI Suite Design Guidance
- Converting To The New 'MR Safe'
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