This is great. If I ever become a tech billionaire (pffff), MRI availability would be a thing I'd champion.
I had to have imaging done last year and while the attending physician stated that they would have like to give me an MRI, they didn't have one. Only a CAT scan machine.
While medically useful in some cases (more useful in non-soft tissue than soft tissue), they're often used more than they should be because of the availability vs an MRI. I assume availability correlates with cost.
It would be great for patients to be able to avoid ionizing radiation and receive the proper imagery to assist in their diagnosis.
Emergency Department. If you’re having a ischemic versus hemorrhage stroke, that guides whether they administer a drug to clear the clot versus preparing to contrast dye you to clip the brain bleed on arrival. If you’re hemorrhaging and they give you the anti coagulant, it’ll kill you faster.
I had to have imaging done last year and while the attending physician stated that they would have like to give me an MRI, they didn't have one. Only a CAT scan machine.
While medically useful in some cases (more useful in non-soft tissue than soft tissue), they're often used more than they should be because of the availability vs an MRI. I assume availability correlates with cost.
It would be great for patients to be able to avoid ionizing radiation and receive the proper imagery to assist in their diagnosis.