Kanal's MRMD/MRSO MR Safety Training Course - San Antonio

Kanal's MRMD/MRSO MR Safety Training Course is organized by Northwest Imaging Forums, Inc. and will be held from Aug 26 - 29, 2018 at La Cantera Resort & Spa, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America.

The target audience for this medical event is Radiologists and/or other Physicians, Technologists/Radiographers, Physicists, Healthcare Risk Managers, MR Research personnel, and any other present and/or future MR Medical Directors or MR Safety Officers. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 24 hours of CME/CE/MPCEC Credit.

Conference Description:
This course is specifically targeted to support those whose job it is - or will be - to fulfill these requirements of MR Medical Director or MR Safety Officer. For those considering becoming MR Safety Experts, this course is not intended to teach or review the quantification algorithms required of this title/position. It does, however, provide an exceedingly comprehensive introduction to and overview of all matters pertaining to MR safety, while simultaneously highlighting that which a reasonably trained MRMD and MRSO should be expected to know - and not know.

This Course is Conceptually Divided into Three Unique Parts:

• Teaching and reviewing the basic principles underlying the potential areas of safety concern involved in the MR imaging process and magnetic resonance environment. This includes defining the roles and responsibilities of the MR Medical Director, the MR Safety Officer, and the MR Safety Expert and how they interact with those of the referring physician, radiologist, and MR technologist. It also incorporates a review of several new recommendations and/or requirements for MR safety, including those by the Joint Commission, ACR, and the recommendations of the recently (2016) published international consensus document entitled, “Recommended responsibilities for management of MR safety”.

• Defining and standardizing the thought process algorithms for assessing whether a patient/device/implant/foreign object can safely undergo MR imaging; reviewing the benefit-risk assessment process and establishing protocols and guidelines as to how to formalize the benefit-risk ratio assessment for each patient. Applying these algorithms and this reasoning approach to multiple real and created clinical cases and situations is an integral aspect of this part of the course.

• Medicolegal aspects of MR safety: Learning from the mistakes of others. In this section, numerous real legal cases in which MR safety-related medical malpractice was alleged will be reviewed and analyzed. The objective will always be to learn how to decrease the likelihood of similar issues arising with your patients in your own MR practice.

Conference Topics:
• Static Magnetic Fields
• RF Magnetic Fields
• Gradient Magnetic Fields
• Safety of Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents, including state-of-the-art review of the current status regarding residual/retained gadolinium
• Cryogen Safety Considerations
• Implant Safety; Clinical Application and Decision Making
• New for 2018: Focused Discussion on Cardiovascular Implanted Electrical Devices (CIEDs)
• Pregnancy and MRI
• Legal Considerations: Overview, in Depth Case Histories and Review
• ACR Guidance Document
• Implant Safety: Kanal’s MR Safety Implant Risk Assessment app: decision tree review and utilization
• Implant Safety: New for 2018: MR Safety Implant Risk Assessment app #2: Kanal’s MagnetVision™
• Review of Submitted Questions

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.