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Could be pumping up billings, but odds are decent they weren’t. An insurance company’s default would be to refuse payment on an ER MRI, so the docs must have fe
by prostheticvamp 7y ago
Could be pumping up billings, but odds are decent they weren’t. An insurance company’s default would be to refuse payment on an ER MRI, so the docs must have felt reasonably confident they needed it and could justify it to insurance or were willing to get reamed out by management if they couldn’t.
Still, an ER MRI is wildly unlikely. “Possible evolving emergency” and “an hour in a tube where we can’t see you” don’t play well together. Any chance you’re confusing CT scan for MRI? Cause -that- we would do for a head trauma like 1000% of the time.
- sterlind 7y agoI had an MRI at the ER for a paralysis attack several years ago. I stabilized after IV fluids were given, they found extremely high neutrophils and thought sepsis, but I was lucid and had no fever. They gave me the option of waiting there for ~6 hours for the MRI shift to start, and I agreed. they found no sepsis or cauda equina, discharged me and told me to come back if it happened again. fortunately, it hasn't yet. I think the combination of weird blood work + medical mystery + stabilized meant I got an MRI. wish they'd gotten to the bottom of it..
- ska 7y agoYou can do useful imaging in well under 5 minutes with modern MR, so it’s not like like this is fundamentally impractical, it the workflow would have to be tightened up.
- xattt 7y agoIs that 5 minutes with a strong field of a conventional machine?
- prostheticvamp 7y agoNoooooope lol
- ska 7y agoYes with acceleration techniques, etc. Main field strength isn’t the real issue here it’s how quickly you can set up the other fields repeatedly and how long your pulse sequences run. There are a lot of factors, but somethings can be done quite quickly.