Comments for Maribel Adame, PhD http://maribeladame.com Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:23:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Spectroscopy to diagnose back pain by Marius Moisa http://maribeladame.com/2010/06/18/spectroscopy-to-diagnose-back-pain/#comment-45 Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:23:56 +0000 http://maribeladame.com/?p=146#comment-45 Nice web page!

]]> Comment on safety in the MRI suite by Tobias Gilk http://maribeladame.com/2009/09/12/safety-in-the-mri-suite/#comment-5 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:09:25 +0000 http://maribeladame.com/?p=60#comment-5 oops… I should double-check before hitting ‘submit.’ it should read:

“…that one lapse (or bathroom break) doesn’t leave the door wide open to an accident.”

]]> Comment on safety in the MRI suite by Tobias Gilk http://maribeladame.com/2009/09/12/safety-in-the-mri-suite/#comment-4 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:55:43 +0000 http://maribeladame.com/?p=60#comment-4 Increased training and responsibility for the MRI staff would be the single most effective step, though in the U.S. it now legally appears that a provider is in a more defensible legal position if they (a) don’t provide training and (b) don’t have effective clinical oversight of the MRI environment (see http://mrimetaldetector.com/blog/2009/08/colombini-case-lawsuit-machinations/).

I can’t tell you how many MR technologists / radiographers, while feeling great pangs of sympathy for the techs who are defendants in this lawsuit, are profoundly upset that the judge in this case has ‘dumbed-down’ the the expectations of these most critical professionals.

Irrespective of this one legal case, since MR hazards are invisible and imperceptible (until it’s too late, at least), I firmly believe that it is necessary to have multiple layers of effective protection such that one lapse (or bathroom break) leaves the door wide open to an accident.

Greater training in safety? Absolutely!

Is that, alone, an appropriately scaled response to the nature of the hazard? No, it is not.

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