MR Safety Week
MR Safety Week 2021
MR Safety is important all year round but we use MR Safety week (the last week in July) to remind ourselves of important advice and best practice and to prevent accidents happening.
In 2021 we are raising awareness by focusing on highlighting aspects of the terminology behind MR safety. This includes revisiting the terms, and the recent change of the addition of a new “MR unlabelled” term.
Our three new safety advice sheets will be published each day on this page during the week from Monday 26 July 2021.
Please share with your teams, print off and use to discuss MR safety in your setting. Help to keep your patients, yourselves and your equipment safe throughout the year.
Advice sheet 1: Terminology Advice sheet 2: MR Unlabelled
Advice sheet 3: Myths and Maths
MR Safety Week 2020
In 2020 we focussed on the learning that can be gained from real-life incidents, what went wrong and how processes were subsequently improved.
Please share with your teams, print off and use to discuss MR safety in your setting. Help to keep your patients, yourselves and your equipment safe throughout the year.
Day 1 Anaesthesia and Sedation Day 2: MR Unsafe Equipment
Day 3 Safety in the MR Linear Day 4: Neuromodulation
Accelerator department
Each day during MR safety week in 2019 we issued safety advice sheets. You may download the advice sheets below.
Day 1: Active Implants Day 2: Cardiac Pacemakers Day 3: Cochlear Implants
Day 4: Neuro-Stimulators Day 5: Deep-Brain Stimulators
MR Safety week 2018
In MR Safety week 2018 the BIR MR SIG published a series of short advice sheets that briefly describe commonly encountered MR Conditions, why they are important and where to find some further information.
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MR Safety podcast 2017
Alan Bainbridge on MR Safety
MRI safety is vital all year round, but MRI Safety Week is a chance to raise awareness of safety issues and check that correct procedures are in place. In this podcast, Alan Bainbridge talks through recent advances in MRI safety, ways to minimise risk and, importantly, what radiologists, radiographers and physicists should be focusing on in MRI Safety week.
Dr Alan Bainbridge is Chair of the BIR MRI Safety Working party and is Head of MRI Physics at University College Hospital. He has a special interest in neonatal MRI and spectroscopy.
