Can CT or MRI scan be done while on a ventilator with a breathing tube?

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Quick Tip for Families in Intensive Care: Can CT or MRI scan be done while on a ventilator with a breathing tube?

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Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecarehotline.com with another quick tip for families in intensive care.

So, at the moment, we are working with a client who has their elderly mother in ICU on a ventilator with a breathing tube with pneumonia. Now, the ICU team should really take her for a CT (Computerized Tomography) scan to see what’s exactly happening with her pneumonia. And they’re saying that it’s too challenging for her to go to a CT scan, let alone in an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scan, because that would be helpful as well to see exactly what’s going on with her pneumonia. But the ICU team says it’s too complicated and so forth.

Now, the client is also requesting to send his mother to another hospital in a metropolitan ICU, which is not too far away. And again, the ICU says that it’s too dangerous for his mother to be transferred. Now, bear in mind, this is in a small sort of country town ICU where there’s probably very little expertise available compared to a big metropolitan ICU.

So, I can assure you, after having worked in intensive care for over 20 years in three different countries, that a CT scan for someone on a ventilator with a breathing tube is no big deal considering that patients on ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) are being transported, flown in helicopters, flown in airplanes, all around countries, and sometimes around the world in very, very critical conditions on multiple inotropes or vasopressors and so forth.

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