Local Anesthesia’s Effect on MRIs of Horse Feet (AAEP 2011)

Certain things just don’t mix: oil and water, or wearing metal during X rays, for instance. But what about diagnostic anesthesia (nerve blocks) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a combination that sometimes occurs because a horse undergoes an MRI study soon after nerve blocks in a lameness exam? A team of researchers recently examined whether diagnostic anesthesia could skew the results of equine foot MRIs.

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