Happy new year everyone!
Hope you are all well.
I created this new topic but please let me know if this has been covered before. I couldn't find the answer I was looking for.
I may be overthinking this but I am worried about my upcoming brain MRI. There is a surge in COVID-19 cases in my hometown and our hospital is overloaded. Is sliding inside an MRI machine for half an hour safe during a pandemic? I guess cleaning the bed and the pads is quite straight forward but how about the magnet bore? It sounds like cumbersome task to clean inside these units, and considering tens of patients use these without masks everyday, viruses can accumulate within.
Am I being paranoid as usual? Are MRI machines common places for infection?
All the best,
Bill
Hope you are all well.
I created this new topic but please let me know if this has been covered before. I couldn't find the answer I was looking for.
I may be overthinking this but I am worried about my upcoming brain MRI. There is a surge in COVID-19 cases in my hometown and our hospital is overloaded. Is sliding inside an MRI machine for half an hour safe during a pandemic? I guess cleaning the bed and the pads is quite straight forward but how about the magnet bore? It sounds like cumbersome task to clean inside these units, and considering tens of patients use these without masks everyday, viruses can accumulate within.
Am I being paranoid as usual? Are MRI machines common places for infection?
All the best,
Bill
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