LANSING, MI — A national nonprofit has partnered with University of Michigan Health – Sparrow Lansing to help children overcome their fear of MRI scans through an innovative Lego play set program that’s dramatically reducing the need for sedation.
The Starlight Foundation and Lego have created detailed MRI play sets that allow pediatric patients to familiarize themselves with the medical procedure before entering the actual scanning room. The program has been in use at Sparrow Hospital for about a year.
“MRIs are scary. You slide into a machine, its noisy and claustrophobic. Most kids actually need to be sedated,” said Adam Garone from the Starlight Foundation…