Comprehensive MRI Safety Protocols and Patient Precautions

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Comprehensive MRI Safety Protocols and Patient Precautions

This document outlines critical guidelines and precautions essential for ensuring optimal MRI safety and patient care during magnetic resonance imaging procedures. Adherence to these protocols is paramount for minimizing risks and maximizing diagnostic accuracy.

Pregnant patients

It is advisable to avoid doing examination by MRI in the first trimester unless you have justification by the benefit balance risk.However, it is not prudent clinically.

Lactating mothers

Excretion of even one Gadolinium-based agent into breast milk is always minimal, and therefore they are always avoided on the prudence grounds. Therefore, the gadolium is…