Starting January 1, 2009 inpatient and outpatient accredited facilities will need to abide by the new Risk Management provisions of The Joint Commission Environment of Care standard. This new standard specifically cites Sentinel Event Alerts as one external reference that must be considered in defining risks. For MRI facilities, this automatically means Sentinel Event Alert #38
The Joint Commission recognizes the use of ferromagnetic detectors to assist in the screening process and also references a study by Dr. Kanal and Dr. Thomas on our product, FerrAlert™. (Reference #6)
The Peer Reviewed Journal -The Internet Journal of World Health and Societal Politics ™
Presents the results of a study performed by Emanuel Kanal, MD, FACR, FISMRM, Chair of the ACR Panel on MRI Safety and Steven Thomas M.D. to evaluate the efficacy of our ferromagnetic detector, FerrAlert™.
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