 "In like a lion..."
March already! That means, amid the blooming flowers, budding trees, conferences, conferences and more conferences!
We hope that you will join us for our first stop on our 2007 world tour, the AHRA Spring Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, next month.
There we'll be presenting on MRI safety operational and planning issues, including a healthy piece on the newly released ACR Guidance Document for Safe MR Practices: 2007, and how it changes the responsibilites of MRI providers.
We're still awaiting the release of the Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert (SEA) on MRI safety issues. We fully expect that the new SEA, coupled with the new ACR Guidance Document, will significantly reshape practices for safety in the MR suite. We will be sending out an alert to all MRI Newsletter subscribers as soon as we receive the SEA.
Have you been following our monthly "Forward to a Friend" promotion? This month's winner, Anne Marie Sawyer of California, USA, shared the MRI Newsletter with a colleague and was selected to win a free full-access subscription for the rest of 2007! You can win a full access subscription too. Just use the forward feature at the foot of this email to be automatically entered. Look at the 'Share The News' section below for all the details.
As always, 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
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MRI-Planning World Tour Announces First 2007 Confirmed Dates!
Act now to sign up to attend AHRA's Spring Conference , April 25-27, in Phoenix, AZ. We will be presenting on MRI safety, including an introduction to the 2007 edition of the ACR Guidance Document for Safe MR Practices.
Also, we will also be presenting at AHRA's Annual Meeting, July 8-12, in Orlando, FL. In July we will be presenting design principles for whole radiology departments, allowing providers to work with their designers to develop more effective and efficient facilities.
We also have confirmed presentations scheduled for the American Society of Healthcare Risk Management's annual meeting, and the SMRT Syracuse Regional meeting, both for this fall.
MRI Newsletter - Article Archive
Is Now On Line!
Don't forget that the archive of previous MRI Newsletter articles has been recently updated. 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, except the published public-access issues.
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ACR MRI Safety Guidance Document:
Summary of Changes
By Robert Junk, AIA, AHRA
Though the replacement for the prior ACR White Paper on MR Safety, now titled the ACR Guidance Document for Safe MR Practices: 2007, won’t see print in the pages of the AJR until June of this year, the ACR and AJR have decided to release the full text of the document electronically. The 27 page document contains substantial revisions to the prior publications and we’re pleased to provide you with this summary of several of the more substantial changes...
Click here to be taken to the full article.
What Does Your Vendor Know About
Your Quench Vent (That You Don't)?
By Tobias Gilk
We’ve received a report of a major MRI equipment vendor suspending a scheduled cryogen fill for one of their clients’ MR systems until the vendor's engineer could make modifications to the cryogen vent (quench pipe). According to the report, this modification was being made in an effort to break the chain of events that lead to a recent catastrophic failure of a MR scanner. The million-dollar question this leaves for all MR operators... is your quench vent safe?
Click here to be taken to the full article.
Elevated Standard Of Care
And Standard of Practice
By Tobias Gilk
Each of us has our own standards for our professional lives that are based on what we know. Legal standards, by contrast, can set the bar at any reasonable height simply by virtue of the fact that the information is available for you to find (and not necessarily in your head already). Unlike the usual incremental nudges by which legal standards usually change, the most recent publications on MRI patient safety have flung the standards ahead, but not only for referring physicians and radiologists.
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:
- Preparing For Your Next JCAHO MRI Survey
- Forthcoming MRI Suite Design Guidance
- Siting Impacts On Image Quality
We Love Hearing From You!
Feel free to contact us with any questions or comments on the articles or issues you'd like to see covered.
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