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Dude, that is most definitely not true. It is true that implants being done today often contain metal that could be safe for future MRIs, but implants from more

Dude, that is most definitely not true. It is true that implants being done today often contain metal that could be safe for future MRIs, but implants from more than just a few years ago are generally very dangerous. In my case my implant is not at all safe, and the surgeon absolutely should've known that. There is a general sense of ignorance among lots of medical community there for some reason.

sanswork 9y ago
Interesting what is your implant made of that it is definitely not safe?
- hellofunk 9y ago
  It's a standard pacemaker. There's the device itself and then the wires to go to the heart. Any surgeon with half a brain should know you don't go anywhere close to an MRI with that. And for all of his misguided advice that could've threatened my life, I still had to pay him of course. He never did any research or checking on my particular model to even see if there was a danger or not. Turns out, the danger is extreme.
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  - sanswork 9y ago
    Ah right. Just realized I read your original post wrong. I read it as saying the orthopedic surgeon implanted metal in your body. There isn't much they'd implant that isn't MRI safe.
  - lionsdan 9y ago
    For a pacemaker in an MRI, it's not being made of metal by itself that's unsafe, it's that the rapidly changing magnetic fields during the scan may cause it to malfunction. But not looking up the MRI conditions under which a device is safe is definitely bad practice. http://www.medtronic.com/us-en/healthcare-professionals/products/cardiac-rhythm/pacemakers/micra-pacing-system/mri-safety.html http://www.medtronic.com/us-en/healthcare-professionals/prod...
    - hellofunk 9y ago
      Sorry mate, this is not true except maybe for very recent implants.
      - lionsdan 9y ago
        I may not be understanding how you're categorizing the failure modes of a pacemaker in an MRI. Here's a review that describes a lot of what can go wrong. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4475571/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4475571/
        hellofunk 9y ago
        I'm not talking about the failure of the device, I'm talking about the dangers of a MRI magnet ripping the metal out of your body. These are very real dangers for nearly all pacemakers, with the exception of those that are being developed now and some that are implanted extremely recently. But most of the pacemakers in use around the world were not installed today. No surgeon should be casually dismissing these risks to a patient without getting any extra information at all.
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sanswork 9y ago

Interesting what is your implant made of that it is definitely not safe?

hellofunk 9y ago
It's a standard pacemaker. There's the device itself and then the wires to go to the heart. Any surgeon with half a brain should know you don't go anywhere close to an MRI with that. And for all of his misguided advice that could've threatened my life, I still had to pay him of course. He never did any research or checking on my particular model to even see if there was a danger or not. Turns out, the danger is extreme.
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- sanswork 9y ago
  Ah right. Just realized I read your original post wrong. I read it as saying the orthopedic surgeon implanted metal in your body. There isn't much they'd implant that isn't MRI safe.
- lionsdan 9y ago
  For a pacemaker in an MRI, it's not being made of metal by itself that's unsafe, it's that the rapidly changing magnetic fields during the scan may cause it to malfunction. But not looking up the MRI conditions under which a device is safe is definitely bad practice. http://www.medtronic.com/us-en/healthcare-professionals/products/cardiac-rhythm/pacemakers/micra-pacing-system/mri-safety.html http://www.medtronic.com/us-en/healthcare-professionals/prod...
  - hellofunk 9y ago
    Sorry mate, this is not true except maybe for very recent implants.
    - lionsdan 9y ago
      I may not be understanding how you're categorizing the failure modes of a pacemaker in an MRI. Here's a review that describes a lot of what can go wrong. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4475571/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4475571/
      - hellofunk 9y ago
        I'm not talking about the failure of the device, I'm talking about the dangers of a MRI magnet ripping the metal out of your body. These are very real dangers for nearly all pacemakers, with the exception of those that are being developed now and some that are implanted extremely recently. But most of the pacemakers in use around the world were not installed today. No surgeon should be casually dismissing these risks to a patient without getting any extra information at all.
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