MRI and Anesthesia & Sedation

Abstract

In 1945 Broch & Purcell described as Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. It wasused for chemical and biochemical analyses for long years. It was widelyused in medical applications after Lauterbur et al. ‘s study in 1973 (1).The primary screening method for breast cancer is mammography asknown. It is the only method that positively affects survival. But itssensitivity and specificity is not 100% and it can be an inadequate methodat some ages. Studies showed that: MRI imaging added mammographyincreased success rates but increased false positivity rates can cause someunnecessary invasive procedures. Although these breast MRI is widely usedfor screening, diagnosis and staging (2).More than 80 million MRI is worldwide applied yearly. Claustrophobia ratesare between 1-15% and more than 2 million breast MRI application isinterrupted for the necessitation of sedation (3). Melendez et al. noticedthat rate around 30%. Also 3-5% of these cases were interrupted due tothe sedation necessitation. Anxiety and claustrophobia can cause sequencerepeating, procedure cancellation and important time and labor loss.