Zones
In Zone 4, where is the highest max spatial gradient?
What is the control buttons on the scanner/entrance to the bore?
On 1st level mode, the MRI scanner can heat the patient's body temperature this many degrees.
What is 1 degree?
When entering the room during a quench the door should be what?
What is propped open?
True or false: If a patient has an unknown heart stent confirmed by a medical record, we are ok to scan the patient in either scanner.
What is false?
This MRI safety level is only in charge of themselves when back in Zone 3.
What is Level 1 personnel?
True or False: The security department can grant Access into Zone IV (magnet rooms) during non business hours without consent from the MRI personnel.
What is False?
Which should we go by, manufacturer, MRIsafety.com or both?
What is manufacturer first, if no info then MRIsafety.com?
Where is the emergency electrical shut off button for the GE scanner?
What is on the keyboard?
If an unexpected metal artifact is seen in the orbit or brain on a scout image, you should do what?
What is slowly remove the patient from the bore and the room, keeping the patient in line with the magnetic field as long as possible
As far as safety, why can't we have non emergent add-ons in MRI?
What is we have to screen twice for non emergent patients?
How many MR Safe oxygen cylinders do we have in Zone 3?
What is 1?
A stent is an example of a passive or active implant?
What is passive?
What will the operator announce over head if the MRI unit quenches?
What is Hazmat MRI?
If a patient complains of tingling on their skin it is most likely due to this.
What is PNS?
Emergent patients and their accompanying Non-MR Personnel (RN or Aide) must be screened how many times?
What is once but must be by a Level 2?
What zone is the area around the quench pipe on the roof?
What is Zone 3?
The Cochlear Neucleus Implant has strict guidelines prior to and when in the MRI scanner room. What are they? And why?
What is prior to performing the MR scan, the patient should be placed in the supine position (laying on back) with head aligned with the bore axis of the MRI machine. The patient should be advised to lie as still as possible and to not move their head during the MR scan?
In the event of a quench, how do we verify that the magnetic field has ceased?
What is a paper clip in a baggie in the (glove) drawer?
What are some examples/types of heating/burns?
SAR (core temp. rise), Focal heating (Electrical voltages and currents can be induced within electrically conductive materials that are within the bore of the MR scanner-cable loops), Proximity burn (sides of the bore), Induced current loops (skin to skin), and Resonant heating (implanted wires/leads)
A patient has a bullet in their body. What questions should we be asking?
What is location, size and when did it happen?
Per 2020 ACR guidelines, for a facility with two or more MR machines that share a single Zone III area where both machines are in use at the same time, there will be a minimum of how many designated MRI personnel during business hours?
What is 3?
This Cook Medical Instinct endoscopic clip was the cause of an elderly mans death, when it dislodged and created a bleed. Do we scan that clip here?
What is yes?
Level 2 personnel should have a direct line of sight of what?
What is all exits and entrances?
What is the longest period we have to wait post iron infusion therapy?
What is 3 months for Feraheme?
If an MRI is ordered on an unresponsive or patient, these xrays must be obtained before we can proceed with the MRI.
What is skull (2 view), Cpine (2view), CXR (2 view), KUB, b/l humerus (2 view), and b/l femur (2 view).