Hold on a minute! Anxious attack is coming on.
Many times you may hear people that have had an MRI say ,”they couldn’t handle it”. Well they probably telling the truth. Many patients have to take valium to calm them down before having a MRI preformed.
MRI is short for magnetic resonance imaging. This is 10,000 times stronger than normal x-rays or CT scan. Since this is a magnetic resonance imaging process all the below articles should be removed.
Jewelry
Hearing aids
Credit cards
Dentures
Pocket knives
Eye glasses
Pens
All of these articles can be damaged or projected during the activation of the magnetic resonance imaging machine.
If you are a pacemaker patient , you can’t have a MRI. This is due to the strong magnetic fields.
Patients with metallic objects in their body should not have a MRI.
Patients with replaced joints
Artificial heart values
Inner ear implants
Brain aneurysm clips
Older vascular stents
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