Contents:
- Medical Video: MRI Preparation
- What is an MRI examination?
- What should be prepared if you will undergo an MRI examination?
- What happens when I undergo an MRI examination?
- Is MRI examination safe for me who is pregnant?
- Then, can everyone undergo an MRI examination?
Medical Video: MRI Preparation
Maybe you are asked by a doctor to do an MRI examination or magnetic resonance imaging to know for sure your health condition. But before doing so, you should first know what should be prepared to do this examination.
What is an MRI examination?
Magnetic resonance imaging or MRI is a medical examination that uses magnetic technology and radio waves to see details of your body parts. This tool can be likened to scanner, who can see and examine parts of your internal organs. even almost all parts of the body can be examined by doing an MRI examination, such as the part:
- Brain and spine
- Bones and joints
- Breast
- Heart and blood vessels
- Various organs in the body such as the liver, uterus, bladder, or prostate gland.
The results of this examination will help your medical team determine the diagnosis of the disease you are experiencing and the treatment plan that should be done next.
What should be prepared if you will undergo an MRI examination?
Actually, there is nothing you need to prepare for an MRI examination. When you come to the examination room, your doctor or medical team will ask you to take off your clothes and replace them with special clothes.
Because you use magnetic technology, you must remove all items containing iron and metal from your body. In some cases, patients will be given a drug that is injected directly into a vein. this is useful to clarify the picture of your body's organs.
What happens when I undergo an MRI examination?
After making preparations before conducting an MRI examination, you will be asked to lie on the part of the device that has been prepared. The MRI device is shaped like a capsule, so during the examination you will enter the capsule.
When this examination takes place you should also not move so that the tool can ‘read’ the body parts being examined. This examination lasts for approximately 15-90 minutes. But if during the examination you feel a complaint, then don't hesitate to share it with the medical team.
Is MRI examination safe for me who is pregnant?
MRI examination is different from X-ray examination using x-rays which can be harmful to the health of the fetus and child. This examination is quite safe for pregnant women and children to do because it uses magnetic technology and does not cause any pain. Because you are only asked to lie down for a few minutes and let the instrument read your organs.
Then, can everyone undergo an MRI examination?
Indeed this examination is quite safe to do, does not cause pain or any side effects. But that does not mean everyone can do it.
For those of you who have a pen embedded in your bones or other type of metal implanted in the body, such as a pacemaker, you cannot do this examination. The presence of metal-based tools in the body will interfere with the way the device works and the results of the MRI examination will not be optimal.
