title: "MR conditional" respiratory ventilator system incident in a 3-T MRI environment.
abstract: The misunderstanding of the labeling for an "MR conditional" respiratory ventilator system resulted in the placement of this device, which had substantial ferromagnetic components, too close to a 3-T magnetic resonance (MR) system, causing a projectile incident. Magnetic resonance imaging health care professionals should be aware of the potentially dangerous consequences when such medical devices that have Food and Drug Administration-approved MR conditional labeling are brought into the MR system room. Recommendations to prevent future incidents are provided herein.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
authors.forename: Kathryn L Z
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Greenberg
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Weinreb
authors.forename: Frank G
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: Shellock
mesh_terms: D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D004867:Equipment Design; D004869:Equipment Safety; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008280:Magnetics; D061214:Patient Safety; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D012122:Ventilators, Mechanical