SERVICES
For Medical Interpretation in Spanish: Call Dot Kerr, Ext. 1510, Beeper 599, Monday –
Friday from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
After hours and for all other languages refer to the Language Line Services at 1-800-874-
9426.
FOR FLAGET ONLY
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Language Services
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FMH calls the following
Over The Phone Primary: 1-844-350-0198
Over the Phone Backup: 1-877-274-9745 Access code 1004655
Face to Face: 1-859-313-4556 (Dot Kerr)
MRI SAFETY
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THE MAGNET IS ALWAYS ON
The MRI magnet effects medical equipment within the patient’s body. No one with a
pacemaker or other internal device is allowed to enter the restricted magnetic area.
No one is to enter the MRI area without approval of MRI trained personnel.
No metal objects are permitted to be in, or on, a person when entering the restricted
magnetic field area.
Only oxygen tanks, regulators, wheelchairs, IV poles, stretchers, and fire extinguishers that
are MRI safe and are labeled with MRI Safe stickers are permitted in the MRI area.
All patients must have an informed consent signed prior to entering the MRI scan area
Employees should be aware of foil-backed medication patches that could result in a burn
during MRI.
Magnetic strips such as those found on credit cards and employee badges will be erased if
taken into an MRI scan room.
Certain equipment
(e.g. buffing machines, chest tube stands, clip boards/patient charts,
hairpins, hearing aids, identification badges, keys, medical gas cylinders, mops, nail clippers
and nail files, pulse oximeters, pacemakers, pagers, paper clips, pens, and pencils, IV poles,
shrapnel, sandbags with metal filings, steel shoes, stethoscopes, scissors, staples, tools,
vacuum cleaners, watches, housecleaning carts or mop buckets, gurneys, oxygen cylinders,
prosthetic limbs, wheelchairs, anesthesia carts)
can cause a potential for injury resulting in
death if taken into an MRI scan room.
If a Code Blue occurs while the patient is in the MRI Scan, the patient will be transported to
the MRI holding area prior to announcing a CODE BLUE.
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