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Can an insulin pump be worn when undergoing medical imaging?
Here Dr Qureshi, Consultant Endocrinologist, discusses the use of insulin pump therapy and possible effects when undergoing medical imaging such as an MRI or X-Ray.
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Do you have to remove your pump if you're going for an MRI or X-ray? So so the pumps are not necessarily designed to be used in those settings, I think. But then because most of the pumps are now metallic, they would interfere with the MRI scanner, right? I think you can wear the pump during a CT scanner, but I don't think they have been studied to look for any malfunction in these environments. So the advice is that you can wear them, but the normal scan duration is less than 45 minutes. So if it's less than 45 minutes, you can just stop the pump and just restart it once your scan is done. And clearly your advice not to wear it if you're having an MRI scan, because it will interfere with your images.
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