MRI Safety Navigator: Building a Better Workflow for MRI Implant Verification For decades, MRI technologists have dealt with the same basic problem. A patient arrives for an MRI examination with an implanted device. Sometimes there is an implant card. Sometimes there is a model number. Sometimes there is an operative note. Sometimes there is little more than a manufacturer name, a partial device description, or a patient who remembers being told that the implant was “MRI compatible.” Then the real work begins. The MRI technologist may have to search manufacturer websites, MRI safety databases, technical manuals, device records, implant documentation, and other sources before determining whether the examination can proceed and under what conditions. The information often exists. The problem is that the information is fragmented. That is the problem MRI Safety Navigator is being designed to solve. This Is Not Another MRI Implant List There are already excellen...

How to Use MRI Safety Navigator: A Practical Implant Research Workflow for MRI Technologists There is a familiar kind of MRI delay that starts with one short sentence: “The patient has an implant.” Sometimes the implant card is complete. Sometimes the operative note is useful. Sometimes the chart says only “stent,” “pacemaker,” “shunt,” or “stimulator,” and the MRI team has to turn that fragment into an exact device identity, a complete system, a current manufacturer document, a scanner-specific set of conditions, and a defensible local decision. MRI Safety Navigator was built to make that research process more structured. Open MRI Safety Navigator and start an implant research case → MRI Safety Navigator is designed to organize implant research, not replace the people responsible for final MRI authorization. It is not an automatic clearance engine. Current manufacturer labeling, the complete implanted system, the exact planned examination, facility policy, and appropriate...

MRI Safety Navigator: Building a Better Workflow for MRI Implant Verification For decades, MRI technologists have dealt with the same basic problem. A patient arrives for an MRI examination with an implanted device. Sometimes there is an implant card. Sometimes there is a model number. Sometimes there is an operative note. Sometimes there is little more than a manufacturer name, a partial device description, or a patient who remembers being told that the implant was “MRI compatible.” Then the real work begins. The MRI technologist may have to search manufacturer websites, MRI safety databases, technical manuals, device records, implant documentation, and other sources before determining whether the examination can proceed and under what conditions. The information often exists. The problem is that the information is fragmented. That is the problem MRI Safety Navigator is being designed to solve. This Is Not Another MRI Implant List There are already excellen...

How to Use MRI Safety Navigator: A Practical Implant Research Workflow for MRI Technologists There is a familiar kind of MRI delay that starts with one short sentence: “The patient has an implant.” Sometimes the implant card is complete. Sometimes the operative note is useful. Sometimes the chart says only “stent,” “pacemaker,” “shunt,” or “stimulator,” and the MRI team has to turn that fragment into an exact device identity, a complete system, a current manufacturer document, a scanner-specific set of conditions, and a defensible local decision. MRI Safety Navigator was built to make that research process more structured. Open MRI Safety Navigator and start an implant research case → MRI Safety Navigator is designed to organize implant research, not replace the people responsible for final MRI authorization. It is not an automatic clearance engine. Current manufacturer labeling, the complete implanted system, the exact planned examination, facility policy, and appropriate...