Healthcare Worker MRI and Radiation Safety
Channel: Patient Safety Movement
Date: 01/03/2021

Tobias Gilk, MRSO, MRSE, MArch., Founder, Gilk Radiology Consultants, Kansas City, Missouri, explains the unique safety concerns of MRI for both patients and healthcare workers, discusses the accumulation of radiation exposure as a determining factor to transition to MRI, and provides recommendations for healthcare safety as it relates to radiology.

Other relevant resources include:

Radiation Dose Chart
https://xkcd.com/radiation/

American College of Radiology Manual on MR Safety: https://www.acr.org/-/media/ACR/Files/Radiology-Safety/MR-Safety/Manual-on-MR-Safety.pdf

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