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That has a lot to do with the difficultly and cost of siting an MRI close enough and keeping it open for for emergency protocols.
by ska 6y ago
That has a lot to do with the difficultly and cost of siting an MRI close enough and keeping it open for for emergency protocols.
- lostlogin 6y agoIt also relates to the patient though. Stroke patients are often not very compliant and a morality that is slow and requires a still patient is ill suited to a lot of the work an ED sees.
- ska 6y agoTrue enough, but MRI is not inherently too slow for this use. If the economics otherwise made sense, an acceptably fast throughput stroke protocol MR is quite doable.
- lostlogin 6y agoIt is. The requirements of the MR environment make it a lot more difficult than CT though. For example a tubed patient is harder to manage in MR than CT, and while this is done regularly it isn't as easily done as CT.
- ska 6y agoTrue, but the improved contrast would probably make it a no-brainer if the other issues were taken care of .
- lostlogin 6y agoPun intended? The contrast is so good. You are probably aware, but there are 5 minute protocols (Siemens call their one a “go brain”) that are pretty reasonable, and probably not far off a gold standard routine protocol 10 years ago.