• Ajay Prasad Hrishi, Karen Ruby Lionel, Unnikrishnan Prathapadas, and Anju Das Thulasi Das.
• Neuroanesthesia Division, Department of Anesthesiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, 4th Floor, C block, Trivandrum, 695011, India. drajay@sctimst.ac.in.
• J Clin Monit Comput. 2018 Dec 1; 32 (6): 1155-1156.

AbstractDistinguishing a monitoring artifact requires expertise and adeptness. This can be practically challenging during the course of an anesthetic. We report a case, wherein we experienced episodes of aberrant pulse-oximeter values suggestive of desaturation with normal waveforms, occurring during a particular sequence of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) performed under general anesthesia, which in fact was an artifact induced by the 3 T MRI during the diffusion tensor imaging sequence.

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