Respirators and surgical facemasks for COVID-19: implications for MRI

• Respirators used for COVID-19 protection have not been tested for MR safety. • Three of four respirators tested contained ferromagnetic components. • These respirators are ‘MR unsafe’. • Respirators used for COVID-19 protection should be reviewed locally for MR safety. • Surgical masks offer a WHO...

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Autores principales: Murray, O.M., Bisset, J.M., Gilligan, P.J., Hannan, M.M., Murray, J.G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Radiologists. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7138385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32299617
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crad.2020.03.029
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description • Respirators used for COVID-19 protection have not been tested for MR safety. • Three of four respirators tested contained ferromagnetic components. • These respirators are ‘MR unsafe’. • Respirators used for COVID-19 protection should be reviewed locally for MR safety. • Surgical masks offer a WHO approved safe alternative for MR staff.
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spelling pubmed-71383852020-04-08 Respirators and surgical facemasks for COVID-19: implications for MRI Murray, O.M. Bisset, J.M. Gilligan, P.J. Hannan, M.M. Murray, J.G. Clin Radiol Article • Respirators used for COVID-19 protection have not been tested for MR safety. • Three of four respirators tested contained ferromagnetic components. • These respirators are ‘MR unsafe’. • Respirators used for COVID-19 protection should be reviewed locally for MR safety. • Surgical masks offer a WHO approved safe alternative for MR staff. The Royal College of Radiologists. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020-06 2020-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7138385/ /pubmed/32299617 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crad.2020.03.029 Text en © 2020 The Royal College of Radiologists. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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