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Two adults attend to a young child lying in a foam tube with a device over her face, practicing for an MRI in a child-friendly room decorated with colorful stickers.
October 31, 2013

Program helps children complete MRIs sedation-free

Natalie Ortiz is a typical six-year-old first grader — happy, active and fidgety — the kind of patient often sedated for a lengthy Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan.

By Nancy Humphrey