ACR Releases Updated MR Safety Guidelines
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has updated its MR safe practice guidelines in a whitepaper titled ACR Guidance Document for Safe MR Practices: 2007. The whitepaper is available on the American Journal of Roentgenology Web site.
The 2007 version represents a virtual rewrite of the entire document and contains information on, among other topics, nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF), a reaction to gadolinium that has been noted in patients with renal disease. Each section has been re-evaluated and updated, with several entirely new sections and appendices including guidelines on MR facility safety design and facility emergency preparedness. First published in 2002, the safety guidelines were revised in 2004.
Click here to read ACR Guidance Document for Safe MR Practices: 2007 in its entirety as published in the AJR.