Shes worried. What are the details of what will happen when they do this? Is there an injection?
2006-09-25 09:39:15 · 9 answers · asked by mailmetlc 3 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Your daughter will be fine without sedation. Just explain to her, that she needs to stay still. Some people can fall asleep during the study. Some MRI scanner can play music if she likes. Depending on why she is getting the MRI, she may not need an injection such as if they are looking for an occult fracture. If they are evaluating a mass then they may need iv injection. It is well tolerated and almost no allergic reaction.
see: http://www.mic.ab.ca/mri/serv_mri_info.html
Good luck
2006-09-29 01:07:48 · answer #1 · answered by chunkychun 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I work at a radiology place and since she is young they will probally sedate here. She will go in throught a tube and be there for like 40 min. Depending on the machine. There shouldn't be an iv injection unless the doctor wants the mri with contrast but for a wrist I doubt it. She will do fine. Sedating would be great, it gets loud in the machine and can be scary because being in the tube makes the machine seem like its in your face. Good Luck.....
2006-09-25 16:48:53 · answer #2 · answered by DA MASTER 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MRI's are painless...Looks like an x-ray would suffice. No she want have to have an injection, depending on the problem with her wrist. Sounds like a complete rip off too me; but what do I know?
2006-09-25 16:56:40 · answer #3 · answered by virginiamayoaunt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had to get one when i was 11 too. The only thing you do is lay in a bed and slide through a dome-shaped hole. She only has to stay still and she'll be fine. Sometimes they give her headphones to listen to music. It's really loud, but at that age they won't do any injections. It doesn't hurt, it will just talk pictures of her. It's all right, nothing will happen.
2006-09-25 16:51:22 · answer #4 · answered by nsklindsay 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow an mri for her wrist?
all they'll do is tell her to lay still... take some images.. lay still more images.. lay still... more images.
they'll pump her with a fluid that'll show up in the scans.. painless.. just annoying.
tell her to relax.. the worst part is.. laying.. laying.... laying... laying... being still.... laying.. being still.
LAYING and BEING STILL!
:D
then she'll be free to leave and you two can get sodas and sammiches at the near by deli... (hopefully you'll have one or a friendly's... something like that.)
2006-09-25 16:48:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have her look it up. It's kind of like an x-ray, but more of a closer look.
2006-09-25 16:43:58 · answer #6 · answered by flower 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
noda thing, it is a noninvasive , there will be no pain invilved.. she need to little more than hold still and put up with lots of loud bumping, thumping and humming noises..
2006-09-25 16:49:22 · answer #7 · answered by TimeWastersInc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please have her and yourself read the info at this web site. It will help you understand the process better. Good luck!
https://www.fhshealth.org/DI_proced/MRI.html
2006-09-25 16:52:11 · answer #8 · answered by TheOne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will put her to sleep if she can't be still.
2006-09-25 16:41:48 · answer #9 · answered by geminiblue26 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋