Magnetic Resonance Imaging

SCREENING RECORD


Your doctor has ordered an MRI examination to help determine your diagnosis. The following items can interfere with MRI imaging and some can be hazardous to your safty.

Please check the approiate boxes:






(e.g. Welders, Machinists, Gunshot Wound, Metal Rods, Screws, Plated, Shrapenel


DO NOT ENTER THE MAGNET ROOM WITH ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

Heart Pacemaker
Jewelry
Any Electronic Device

Watches
Hair Pins
Hearing Aid
Dentures

Keys
Barretts
Earrings

Credit Cards
Pens
Belts

Coins
Pocket Knife
Safty Pins



FOR TECHNOLOGIST USE ONLY


GADOLINIUM

The radiologist may deem it nessessary to give you the I.V. injection of a contrast liquid containing galolinium to improve the quality of your MR examination. Although gadolinium contrast agents have been used safely in millions of patients, minor reactions (principally headache or nausea) occur in 2% of patients, and serious or life threateningreactions have been reported in 1 in 400,000 patients.

GFR acceptable range >51
GFR 30-50 - half dose
GFR <30 - contact Radiologist


FOR TECHNOLOGIST USE ONLY