Sedated MRI?

eSynergy

Have any of your LOs had a sedated MRI? Did he/she wake up right away, and were they ok the next day?

We have one scheduled in a couple of weeks for Oliver, and it's during the week, so I have to work the next day. Wondering if we should reschedule to a Saturday so we have Sunday to recover, if needed. I'd hate to put him in daycare if he's extra sleepy/cranky/etc.

I posted a few times on here, but we finally got a definite diagnosis for Oliver - he has hearing loss so we'll be getting hearing aids soon. Although we're sad about this (I'm working on getting to that acceptance stage), we're happy we have an answer and can move forward. We've been going back and forth since he was born, about whether or not he had hearing issues.

iowagirl73

DS2 had one at not quite 10.5mos.  He did fabulous on it including the fasting beforehand.  The procedure took around an hour and he was still sleeping but starting to wake up when I got back to the recovery room where he was.  It took about 10min for him to fully wake up.  We fed him once he was awake and he recovered from it all very well.

am369

Yep! They used propofol which has a really short half life so about 20 minutes after they stopped it he was wide awake.  however he was sleepy all afternoon because of fussing from fasting and screaming while getting an iv. 

Justinlove

LA had one in October.  She woke up within 15 minutes of the sedation being stopped.  She was fine the rest of the day (like nothing had even happened) and went to daycare the next day.  Good luck with it!

eSynergy

Thanks girls for easing my mind.

tuicatmama

Hey:)

My guy also had one in Oct @ 6 months with Propofol.

He woke quickly (about 10-15 min), and was back to normal within about 3 hours. He was hungry right away! I was so nervous, but he was fine. Hope everything goes well! 

tuicatmama

Oh!

And I wanted to mention that our hospital had a rule where only one parent was allowed in during the IV setting, no parents during the MRI, and one during recovery...Knowing this in advance helped us make a plan...

Justinlove

TuicatMama:

Oh!

And I wanted to mention that our hospital had a rule where only one parent was allowed in during the IV setting, no parents during the MRI, and one during recovery...Knowing this in advance helped us make a plan...

I am always interested in how different hospitals handle things.  In our case, we were both allowed in the room during the prep, IV and propofol administration.  I held her while she went to sleep and layed her on the MRI bed.  We were not allowed in the room during the MRI procedure, but no less than 5 different nurses/techs came by at various times to let us know how she was doing (it only lasted about 30 minutes).  As soon as they were done, they brought her to us and I was able to hold her as she woke up.  It was such a nice experience since at no time was she "awake" without us. 

I hope you can stay with your child during those "awake" times.

eSynergy

TuicatMama:

Oh!

And I wanted to mention that our hospital had a rule where only one parent was allowed in during the IV setting, no parents during the MRI, and one during recovery...Knowing this in advance helped us make a plan...

 

Good to know! I'll check with our hospital to see what their policy is. DH and I were both going to take off work to go, so only one of us will go if this is the policy.

MaxOrTori

Our daughter had hers today.  She woke up pretty quickly, but has been groggy the whole day - napping on and off.  It was better than I expected.  Will your son have oral or IV sedation?

eSynergy

MaxOrTori:

Our daughter had hers today.  She woke up pretty quickly, but has been groggy the whole day - napping on and off.  It was better than I expected.  Will your son have oral or IV sedation?

It's an IV.

Emcat1980@yahoo.com

My son had one at 10 months. He was really pissed about the fasting thing. DH and I both worked at the hospital at the time, so we were allowed back there with him when other parents probably wouldn't have been (we were so lucky for this!). Anyway, they agreed to try PO meds (chloral hydrate) to see if that would work instead of jumping to IV (propofol). It took him about 30 min after the chloral to go to sleep --- he really fought it -- but once he was out it was perfect. The MRI was fine, he slept right through it, then woke up and was normal the rest of the day. Good luck!

realisticdreams

Peyton had one at about 6 months or so and we have to have another one next month at Children's in DC (this will be a diff hospital/diff experience, i'm sure).

At WVU they took her back, gave her the inhaled sedation & then put in her IV so that she was already out and didn't have to go through the pain.  When she woke up she was super hungry (although we were scheduled for 8am to get in the car/drive before AM bottle was not normal for her).  She did great though, taking the IV out obviously bothered her.   I do think she slept a good bit that evening. 

This time we aren't scheduled until 12pm, for 11am pre-admission.  They wanted to do it at 3pm!  I was like. doesn't she have to fast!?  I mean sheesh, do these people know what a 2-3 hr drive with a hungry baby is like.

Most of the time things like this are much harder on us, than them.  Fortunately for them, not so much for us.

Paigeo

My DD also had no issues with the sedation and woke up almost immediately afterward. Definitely ask about the parent policy. DH and I were both able to be with her the entire time including during the MRI. We just had to remove everything metal but I thought it was interesting to be able to sit in the room.