Cardiac MRI

If your child is waiting for a cardiac MRI then you may want to read the following UCL Institute of Child Health information sheets. Although written for parents at Great Ormond Street Hospital, it may be helpful to other parents -just bare in mind that procedures may differ at other hospitals.
The two leaflets cover what a cardiac MRI is, use of anaesthesia, what happens during the scan and what happens after.
To read the information sheets follow these links:
http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/gosh_families/information_sheets/mri_cardiac_ge...
http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/gosh_families/information_sheets/mri_cardiac_no...
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