Tobias Gilk, President and MRI Safety Director for Mednovus, Writes Cover Story on Ferromagnetic Detection for Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare Magazine

Leucadia, CA, July 28, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare (PSQH), a semi-monthly publication on healthcare safety and risk management, is featuring a cover story on the use of ferromagnetic detection for MRI patient safety. The article is written by Tobias Gilk, President and MRI Safety Director for Mednovus, Inc.

The article, entitled "Ferromagnetically Naked: New Tools For MRI Safety" appears in the July/August 2008 edition of PSQH and is the feature article for the issue.

For a thumbnail image of the cover, please see http://www.psqh.com/covers/julaug08cover.jpg

The article illustrates the experiences of the New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center (NYP/WC) in their review and adoption of ferromagnetic detection screening of MRI patients.

NYP/WC compared ferromagnetic detection vendors and technologies and is now using Mednovus SAFESCAN(R) hand-held and walk-through ferromagnetic detection products. The article recounts the adoption and adaptation process that NYP/WC has followed to maximize the safety benefit from these new tools.

The full text of the PSQH article is viewable online at the magazine's website (http://www.psqh.com/julaug08/mri-safety.html). Readers wanting a PDF formatted version of this article can download a copy from the Mednovus website (http://www.Mednovus.com/downloads/Ferromagnetically_Naked_Print.pdf).

The author of the PSQH article, Tobias Gilk, is an expert in MRI safety issues and serves on the American College of Radiology's MR Safety Committee as well as the Guidelines publication's patient safety working group. He has been an invited speaker on issues of MRI safety to multiple national and international conferences and has written hundreds of articles on various aspects of MRI safety.

The article's inclusion in the July/August issue of PSQH is serendipitous, as it corresponds with MRI-Safety Week, which falls around the anniversary of a tragic MRI accident fatality that occurred in 2001.

For more information on ferromagnetic detection and MRI safety, please contact Mednovus, Inc. via our website (http://www.mednovus.com/contact.html).

To contact Tobias Gilk, President and MRI Safety Director of Mednovus and author of the PSQH "Ferromagnetically Naked" article, please visit the Mednovus website (http://www.mednovus.com/contact.html).

Mednovus, Inc. is the premier vendor of cost-effective MRI safety solutions for ferromagnetic screening in a variety of formats. The company's products are backed by the support of industry experts, including the company's President.

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