{"id":11710,"date":"2022-01-28T10:15:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T15:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/?p=11710"},"modified":"2022-01-31T15:12:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T20:12:35","slug":"mri-thrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/2022\/01\/28\/mri-thrives\/","title":{"rendered":"UVA MRI Thrives in Complex and Changing Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This article is one in a series of articles highlighting different modality teams at UVA Radiology. We&#8217;ve previously gotten to know teams and people in <a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/2021\/10\/25\/mammography-techs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mammography<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/2021\/07\/19\/uva-radiology-salutes-our-nurses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">radiology nursing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/2021\/01\/27\/diagnostic-radiology-drives-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diagnostic radiology<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/2020\/10\/21\/uva-radiologys-ct-team-rises-to-challenges-brought-by-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CT<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/2021\/04\/09\/spotlight-on-four-uva-radiology-teams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">other areas<\/a> that support clinical care. Today, we turn to MRI.<\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11738\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11738\" class=\"wp-image-11738 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/DSC_5038-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/DSC_5038-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/DSC_5038-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/DSC_5038-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/DSC_5038-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/DSC_5038-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Members of the MRI team. Pictured, front row: Caitlin Roth, Douglas Fife, Steven Potts and Laura Calise. Back row: Marc Santana, Tyler Johnson and Ryan Silver.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Every hour of every day, there is a team at UVA Health ready to perform MRIs.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five MRI technologists, Radiology Clinical Associates (RCAs) and an RN safely and compassionately image every patient who comes their way. That includes emergency room patients who need a scan immediately, inpatients under general anesthesia, or outpatients who need complex scans they can\u2019t get anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>The MRI team will image 30-40 patients on a typical day, in one of five MRI machines located in the main hospital campus, the Education Resource Center, and a mobile MRI facility. Imaging so many different types of patients, often with complex medical needs, is no simple task.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11729 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_14-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"The UVA MRI team positions a patient inside the scanner while a team member watches from outside the room.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_14-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_14-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_14-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_14-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_14-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>An Intricate Dance<\/h2>\n<p>The MRI department at UVA Health isn\u2019t like a typical outpatient MRI imaging center. Outpatient centers perform more routine diagnostic MRI scans, imaging organs, joints and other soft tissue. Those outpatient centers are able to give patients contrast and also medication to help with anxiety and claustrophobia.<\/p>\n<p>But the MRI team inside the hospital must scan inpatients, who may be more seriously ill or incapacitated, as well as patients who require general anesthesia. They can scan patients with implantable medical devices like pacemakers, which require special safety protocols. And, in general, they perform the more complex scans that outpatient centers and other regional hospitals cannot do.<\/p>\n<p>That means that no two patients or MRI scans are the same. For the MRI team, each day is an intricate dance of patients coming from all areas of the hospital with a dizzying array of medical needs. And increasingly, in winter 2022, COVID-positive patients need to be imaged, too: as many as five a day. That requires an entire system of safety precautions to be put in place while those patients move through the scanner rooms and hallways.<\/p>\n<p>The team thrives under these conditions. \u201cWe do really well at handling stressful situations together and helping each other out,\u201d says <strong>Caitlin Roth, Imaging Supervisor for MRI<\/strong>. \u201cAt the end of the day, we know we are here for our patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>With Their Patients at Every Step<\/h2>\n<p>There are dozens of different scans the MRI team must perform on a daily basis. Some last just 15 minutes &#8211; others, two hours. Some require special contrast. Some are functional tests, which show how the heart or digestive system, for example, are working in real time. From brains to the spine, the abdomen, joints, knees, blood vessels, hearts, bowels &#8211; every area of the body, with few exceptions, can be imaged using MRI.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11732 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/inside_mri_ss_09-3-e1643320195308.jpg\" alt=\"MRI technologists wheel a patient into a scanner room on a stretcher.\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No matter who a patient is or what they need an MRI for, MRI technologists are there to guide them through the process from beginning to end. They also control the actual MRI machine and make sure it performs the correct sequences needed to image each patient.<\/p>\n<p>Technologists greet outpatients in the waiting room. They take them back to the MRI area, perform screening protocols and carefully review safety and implant information. They help patients change and start an IV, if needed. If the patient needs sedation, they coordinate with the anesthesia team. Then they bring patients to the scanner rooms, position the patient on the MRI table and perform the actual scans from the adjacent control room. Afterwards, they help patients out of the scanner, remove any IV lines, and bring them back out to the waiting room.<\/p>\n<h2>Safety Comes First<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cSafety is the first priority of our team,\u201d says Caitlin. \u201dSometimes it feels like we\u2019re airport security, preventing others from bringing things into the scan room that could be dangerous to the patient or to our team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11714 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/DSC_0655-scaled-e1643320240362.jpg\" alt=\"Sign warning about the dangers of the MRI's strong magnetic field\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MRIs use magnetic fields to create detailed images of the inside of the body. When a patient lies inside an MRI scanner, the magnetic field created by the powerful magnets in the machine temporarily realign water molecules in the body. These aligned atoms allow the machine to generate cross-sectional images, like slices of bread, of the inside of the patient\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p>The magnetic field inside a scanner is extremely powerful. On a 1.5 Tesla (a unit of magnetic measurement) MRI machine, the field is 30,000 times stronger than the one on earth. And the field cannot be turned off &#8211; the MRI magnets operate at all times.<\/p>\n<p>With that powerful magnetic field comes risk: any metal in a scanner room can be extremely dangerous for patients and staff. Chairs, carts and fire extinguishers can become dangerous flying objects, strike people, or get stuck in the bore of the machine, pulled in by the powerful magnetic field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Calise<\/strong> is a Lead MRI Technologist and the Safety Officer for the MRI team. Her job is to make sure that the entire team is aware of the correct safety protocols and is consistently following them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone plays an important role in MRI safety,\u201d Laura says, \u201cEverybody has to do their part to keep our patients safe. You can\u2019t be lax about it &#8211; it requires being on top of it all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides creating protocols for things like a fire in the MRI department &#8211; a dangerous situation, given that firefighters cannot use their typical equipment in a scanner room because it would get sucked into the machine (along with the firefighters) &#8211; Laura researches and creates policies for imaging patients with specific implantable medical devices, like pacemakers.<\/p>\n<p>This is an area where safety is particularly important. The idea seems, at first, impossible: how can you subject a patient to a powerful magnetic field when they have a complex medical device with metal parts inside their body?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a relatively recent and vitally important breakthrough. \u201cNine years ago, when I started here at UVA, we didn\u2019t do any pacemakers at all (in MRI),\u201d says Caitlin. \u201cNow we do at least one a day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pacemakers are more complex to scan, compared to other implants, and they have to go through a rigorous approval process involving three different services, to make sure that scans are truly needed and can be done safely. \u201cWe truly are the workhorses for all kinds of implants and pacemakers,\u201d says Caitlin.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11730 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_10-scaled-e1643320417800-1024x535.jpg\" alt=\"The UVA MRI team prepares and positions a patient in the scan room\" width=\"1024\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_10-scaled-e1643320417800-1024x535.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_10-scaled-e1643320417800-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_10-scaled-e1643320417800-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_10-scaled-e1643320417800-1536x802.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_10-scaled-e1643320417800-2048x1070.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_10-scaled-e1643320417800-383x200.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Teaming Up With Off-Site Anesthesia<\/h2>\n<p>Exemplifying the daily complexity in MRI is the team\u2019s close relationship with Off-Site Anesthesia nurses, who move across the hospital prepping patients and supporting attendings who administer anesthesia. They work in places that don\u2019t have dedicated nursing teams to do this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paula Schenck<\/strong>, RN Clinician IV, coordinates the five-person team of off-site anesthesia nurses: Amy Jordan, Patricia Finneran, David Pollak and Melanie Zobell. They work in a different space, with a different team around them, every day. It\u2019s a challenge that not everyone wants to tackle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to be autonomous in this position,\u201d Paula says. \u201cWe are usually in places where there may not be a lot of support. So you have to be comfortable in your own practice. Self-motivated, independent, thinking outside the box, and prepared for emergencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not for everyone, but her team loves it. Combined, they have 60 years experience in off-site anesthesia, and 118 total years of nursing experience. It\u2019s a high-powered group that Paula is proud of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Radiology, we\u2019re regularly in MRI, CT, fluoroscopy, Nuclear Medicine, ultrasound, in the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center, and neuroradiology,\u201d says Paula. Her team gets patients ready for sedation, helps move them in and out of a scanner safely while sedated, monitors them during a scan, and helps with recovery. \u201cWe do all these roles, same as in the OR,\u201d Paula says, \u201cBut it\u2019s a traveling show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MRI brings particular challenges because of the magnets present. Any devices, controls or pumps regularly used in patients with anesthesia that are not compatible with the MRI machine could quickly become dangerous for the patient and for staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us, the biggest challenge is that you can\u2019t take things into a scanner that you would normally have,\u201d says Paula. \u201cYou can\u2019t run in and out of the scan room with things like IVAC pumps, stethoscopes or Vocera devices, because of the magnets. We have to do everything from outside of the room and run tubing through the door.\u201d Doing so safely requires close communication with MRI techs.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams have a great relationship, Paula says, born out of years of working together. \u201cOur focus is safety,\u201d she says, \u201cJust like theirs. We depend on the MRI team to keep our patients safe, to clear devices in our patients, to interview them pre-scan and make sure a scan is safe for them. We really rely on their expertise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11736 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_15_small-e1643320687310-1024x410.jpg\" alt=\"An MRI technologist images a patient from the adjacent control room\" width=\"1024\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_15_small-e1643320687310-1024x410.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_15_small-e1643320687310-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_15_small-e1643320687310-768x307.jpg 768w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_15_small-e1643320687310-500x200.jpg 500w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/Inside_MRI_SS_15_small-e1643320687310.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Always Striving to Be Better<\/h2>\n<p>The MRI team is always looking for ways to improve their safety protocols, image quality and patient care. Their focus isn\u2019t on how well they did today: it\u2019s on being better tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Huerta<\/strong> is the Lead MRI Technologist and the Quality Assurance Lead for MRI. QA is concerned with making sure that scans are of the best possible quality, leading to improved diagnoses and outcomes for patients. Thomas helps create protocols for each type of exam, so techs can follow a set of instructions to get the best possible outcome, while also making sure patients can spend the least amount of time in a scanner.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11752 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/191\/2022\/01\/inside_mri_ss_03-2-e1643383617478.jpg\" alt=\"UVA MRI technologist Thomas Huerta imaging a patient\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes, mistakes happen,\u201d he says. \u201cA sequence didn\u2019t work, so we have to call a patient back. We go back over it with the tech who did it, and we show them alternatives, what to look for, and how to fix it. We\u2019re always trying to make things better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That focus on improvement is personal for Thomas. \u201cI love what I do, so I\u2019m always reading about it. I\u2019ve been (imaging patients) since 1992, when I started with x-rays while I was in the army. I learned early on that if you want to learn things, you have to learn it from people who know what they\u2019re doing. Experts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas now serves as that kind of expert for his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we do is about experience, but it\u2019s also about seeking knowledge. I really believe that our team is very well experienced. I hear, all the time, from new hires, or people visiting, that we are very advanced in what we do. We do a lot of exams here that they typically don\u2019t do in other places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not enough, for Thomas, to be satisfied with what you already know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always tell team members, \u2018If you want to learn something, you have to ask,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cAnd I always encourage them to learn more, regardless of where they start.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is one in a series of articles highlighting different modality teams at UVA Radiology. We&#8217;ve previously gotten to know teams and people in mammography, radiology nursing, diagnostic radiology, CT, and other areas that support clinical care. Today, we turn to MRI. 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