Infusion pump performance in an MR environment

Concerns about life support equipment accompanying the critically ill patient have to date made magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies of this patient group the exception. We present here a series of tests performed on an IVAC P3000 infusion pump to investigate its suitability for the magnetic res...

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Published inEuropean journal of anaesthesiology Vol. 16; no. 7; p. 468
Main Authors Williams, E J, Tam, Y C, Kendall, I V, Carpenter, T A, Menon, D K
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 01.07.1999
Subjects
Critical Illness
Equipment Design
Equipment Failure
Equipment Safety
Humans
Image Enhancement
Infusion Pumps
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Magnetics
Pressure
Reproducibility of Results
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Summary:Concerns about life support equipment accompanying the critically ill patient have to date made magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies of this patient group the exception. We present here a series of tests performed on an IVAC P3000 infusion pump to investigate its suitability for the magnetic resonance imaging environment. We investigate safety, pump performance and image quality issues. The pump was housed at the end of the patient couch to prevent motion towards the scanner. Gravimetric tests found the pump to work within acceptable parameters at a static field of 10 mT. Image interference issues were addressed.
ISSN:0265-0215
DOI:10.1046/j.1365-2346.1999.00518.x