MRIsatety.com is a great resource for medical students, residents, and all medical personnel. We all know that when a patient has a pacemaker from 2004 that they can not get a thoracic MRI. However, what if the patient had a recent shoulder replacement? What if the patient has a port for chemotherapy? What if the patient had recent spinal surgery? No matter what the circumstance, you can search this website for the patient’s device and find out if it is safe for an MRI.
The main website is…
http://www.mrisafety.com
Or, the searchable list of implantable devices can be found directly at…
http://www.mrisafety.com/list_search.asp
The list of all searchable products includes:
- Pumps
- Aneurysm clips
- Bone and Nerve stimulators
- Cardiac Pacemakers and AICDs (defibrillators)
- Breast and other soft tissue implants
- Coils, Filters, Stents, Grafts
- Dental Implants and Devices
- Catheters
- Clips
- Foreign Bodies
- Ocular Implants, lens
- Sutures
- Etc.
My name is Andrew and I am a first year resident training to be an ophthalmologist. I created ShortWhiteCoats to provide medical students, residents, and the public with all the information I spent so many hours looking for during medical school.
