According to the survey, more than 90 percent of physicians agreed that MRI is contraindicated and risky for patients with pacemakers or other electronic implantable devices. But three in 10 patients with electronic implantable devices have had an MRI despite the risks, the NCOA survey found, and of those, nearly 20 percent reported problems with the device afterwards.
Nearly one-third of patients and more than half of their caregivers said they did not remember being told when the device was implanted that they might not be eligible for some types of medical imaging, according to an NCOA release on the survey.
Read about the NCOA study on medical imaging.
