Man dies after being pulled into MRI machine by metal necklace he was wearing

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Man dies after being pulled into MRI machine by metal necklace he was wearing​


A man has died after getting sucked into an MRI machine.


The accident occurred on July 16 at the Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, New York, according to a press release from the Nassau County Police Department in Long Island.

Officers responded to a 911 call at around 4:30 p.m. at the MRI center, which provides diagnostic radiology services.


"Upon arrival, officers were informed that a male, 61, entered an unauthorized Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) room while the scan was in progress," the release stated.


"The male victim was wearing a large metallic chain around his neck, causing him to be drawn into the machine, which resulted in a medical episode."...
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WOW I have heard of oxygen tanks becoming projectiles before but have never heard of a person wearing a necklace getting sucked in. I bet it freaked out the patient.
 
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FastLane said:

Man dies after being pulled into MRI machine by metal necklace he was wearing​


A man has died after getting sucked into an MRI machine.


The accident occurred on July 16 at the Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, New York, according to a press release from the Nassau County Police Department in Long Island.

Officers responded to a 911 call at around 4:30 p.m. at the MRI center, which provides diagnostic radiology services.


"Upon arrival, officers were informed that a male, 61, entered an unauthorized Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) room while the scan was in progress," the release stated.


"The male victim was wearing a large metallic chain around his neck, causing him to be drawn into the machine, which resulted in a medical episode."...
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WOW I have heard of oxygen tanks becoming projectiles before but have never heard of a person wearing a necklace getting sucked in. I bet it freaked out the patient.
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Sounds like a major lawsuit. MRI operators go through rigourous training. Removing all metal and jewlery before getting an MRI is "MRI 101".

The medical faculty fucked up royally if your OP is even true.
 
LurchAddams said:
Sounds like a major lawsuit. MRI operators go through rigourous training. Removing all metal and jewlery before getting an MRI is "MRI 101".

The medical faculty fucked up royally if your OP is even true.
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The guy went into the room while a MRI was in progress on someone else. I wonder if he was a family member. I have never seen a MRI room that does not have multiple signs warning about removing all metal before entering.
 
FastLane said:
The guy went into the room while a MRI was in progress on someone else. I wonder if he was a family member. I have never seen a MRI room that does not have multiple signs warning about removing all metal before entering.
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It does. And the machine is not used on a patient, if they have had a history of metal fragments being embedded in their skin or body. I was both a welder, and also a military member who was hit by shrapnel on several occasions.

Before I could get an MRI, they put me in another machine, and ran a weak magnet field over my face and head, for several minutes to magnetize any fragments in my face, then then ran an intensive pulse of magnetic field in the opposite direction, to suck the embedded metal from my face. I was bleeding after from multiple places. It was very painful.

After several days of healing, they did it again in other areas, and small bits of metal were drawn from my abdomen and chest, with more injuries.

After several more days of healing, I received the full body MRI scan. It still caused a few injuries.

A very unpleasant process.

At the time I went through the procedures, I was one of the first people to do it. I had so sign all kinds of waivers for the MRI labs liability.

Today, Soldiers and other industrial workers benefit from the process developed on people like me.


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Kurmugeon said:
It does. And the machine is not used on a patient, if they have had a history of metal fragments being embedded in their skin or body. I was both a welder, and also a military member who was hit by shrapnel on several occasions.

Before I could get an MRI, they put me in another machine, and ran a weak magnet field over my face and head, for several minutes to magnetize any fragments in my face, then then ran an intensive pulse of magnetic field in the opposite direction, to suck the embedded metal from my face. I was bleeding after from multiple places. It was very painful.

After several days of healing, they did it again in other areas, and small bits of metal were drawn from my abdomen and chest, with more injuries.

After several more days of healing, I received the full body MRI scan. It still caused a few injuries.

A very unpleasant process.

At the time I went through the procedures, I was one of the first people to do it. I had so sign all kinds of waivers for the MRI labs liability.

Today, Soldiers and other industrial workers benefit from the process developed on people like me.


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They always worry about metal in the cornea on welders.
 
FastLane said:
They always worry about metal in the cornea on welders.
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There is a ceramic catch bowl on the front of the pulsing magnet, in the cleaning process. When I had it done, the bowl was covered in black fuzz and blood. Probably around 10-20 grams, some of the fragments were macroscopic. The debris were radioactive, iridium.

Most Americans have no idea of the sacrifices being made by Government Lab and Military weapon R&D staff go through, to insure America's military was the strongest in the world. And then China stole it.

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Kurmugeon said:
There is a ceramic catch bowl on the front of the pulsing magnet, in the cleaning process. When I had it done, the bowl was covered in black fuzz and blood. Probably around 10-20 grams, some of the fragments were macroscopic. The debris were radioactive, iridium.

Most Americans have no idea of the sacrifices being made by Government Lab and Military weapon R&D staff go through, to insure America's military was the strongest in the world. And then China stole it.

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iridium is magnetic ? I was unaware of it.
 
FastLane said:
iridium is magnetic ? I was unaware of it.
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No. But the particle of ceramic, high temp glass, also non-magetic, the iridium was attached to, by ion implantation, was part of the glass of a Soviet Radar Planar Gas Tube, in the duplexer, and other materials that were coating parts of the ceramic sliver were Iron Based. The pulsed magnetic field wasn't strong enough to pull the slivers out of my Pelvis bone, that came years later, but it was enough to pull very shallow penetrated fragments from my face and surface of my abdomen skin.

The iridium was used to create beta particles on the surface of the glass in the ionization pulse when the duplexer fired, to switch the horn feed to the dish from Tx to Rx. It gives the system better near field detection, so the system can see targets as little as two miles away. That means that a missile launched to intercept can be guided to nearby targets.

None of that tech is used today, by military radars, it has all been replaced by phase arrays. It is still used in some very old air traffic control radars, mostly in third world nations. But they don't bother with the near field detection, for civilian use, a minimum range of 10 miles is fine.

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