CT scans can interfere with medical devices
Device Regulation Alert: Safety, Compliance and Reimbursement News, July 21, 2008
Computed tomography (CT) scanning can lead to malfunction in implanted and external medical devices, a preliminary public health notification from the FDA warns. In a small number of reported cases, CT scans interfered with the proper function of devices such as pacemakers, defibrillators, and infusion pumps.
The FDA will continue to investigate the issue and recommends that when a patient undergoing a CT scan has an internal or external medical device, the provider try to move external devices away from the scanner, temporarily have patient shut of neurostimulators, or minimize exposure to the x-rays.
Comments
0 comments on “CT scans can interfere with medical devices ”
Related Products
-
ePharm5 InDepth
EPharm5 e-mail newsletter delivers the top 5 developments in pharma business innovation, with original research, interviews...
-
Big Pharma Performance Before, During and Beyond the Global Recession
This report assesses the performance of the leading 15 pharmaceutical companies up to, during and beyond the recent global...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Catch up on what's new with injections and infusions
- Topic: CMS, OESS post new security compliance review information, checklist
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- QA:Coding multiple initial infusions
- Capturing all necessary codes for IUD insertion and removal can be challenging
- News and briefs: Oklahoma Osteopathic Association against residency bill change
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- HIPAA Q&A: Level of encryption needed for email
- E-mailed
-
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Catch up on what's new with injections and infusions
- New conflicts of interest create new challenges
- Joint Commission Center announces handoff communication solutions
- Inside best practice: Reduce patient falls with a stoplight
- Identify modifiable risk factors to prevent patient falls
- Hospitalist-surgeon comanagement has no effect on outcomes
- HIPAA Q&A: Level of encryption needed for email
- Case Management Monthly, June 2012
- Searched