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The MR/OR isn't just a room. It's the people. After the MR/OR team leaped into action for an emergency brain surgery one Friday afternoon, a surgeon sent them a thank-you note.
Acknowledging the difficulty of adding a case into an already busy schedule, neurosurgeon Edward Smith, MD, wrote, "All the team involved in this case went above and beyond the norm to help out. Many folks stayed late and bent over backwards to accommodate the needs of this child."
The good news? "We think we got the whole tumor out," Dr. Smith wrote, "and the child woke up with no major deficits -- exactly what we hoped for and due, in large part, to the use of the magnet."
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A mobile MR, the first of its kind in a pediatric setting, is being used to assist surgeons in one of Children's Hospital's new operating rooms. This mobile "intraoperative MR," which is suspended from the ceiling, allows surgeons to obtain images while the patient is still under anesthesia and to perform further procedures as needed.
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