Long Island man wearing 9kg-metal necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine
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I imagine his head was plucked like a ripe tomato in the garden.
I doubt it, obviously depending on the applied force.
Skin is rather tough to rip with a blunt tool so yeah, maybe the head was disconnected from the spine immediately, making him look like a giraffe spinning at 12 RPM round and round.
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The wife asked to see her husband. I don't think the blame rests solely on the couple. The nurse should've stepped in. I'm also not sure why there wasn't a emergency stop button.
wrote last edited by [email protected]There was on one that I've been in, not sure about this one.
From my understanding, when an MRI is emergency stopped it doesn't stop immediately, and it causes a lot of damage, so staff are less likely to use it in an emergency. Stupid, yes. But when you're worried about getting fired for hitting a button, you're less likely to think of a situation as an emergency. You would think "chain strangling a man" constitutes an emergency though...
As for the staff not stopping the guy making a beeline for the door with more than just words, I'm not sure. I would prefer staff tackle me to the floor rather than let me blithely walk to my doom. Of course I'm only in my 30s...
The hospital is absolutely partly to blame, especially if they didn't properly convey the danger beforehand. All 3 hospitals I've recieved an MRI from have been pretty insistent about making sure I have no metal on or around me before I go in the doors though.
I'd say it's about 60/40 on the hospital.
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If the necklace impeded blood flow or even put a lot of strain on his circulatory system then it could have caused his heart attacks.
Sounds like it wasn't him being pulled towards the machine that killed him, it was being pinned against the machine for a prolonged period of time.
yeah what annoyed me was the Lady asking to just turn it off like you can just turn it off. i know she is desperate to undo her and her husband's stupidity but the article framing those quotes like the tech was incompetent is bad journalism.
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Easy solution : have a pure gold necklace, since gold isn't magnetic
Moving fields, eddy currents still apply.
Copper isn't magnetic either https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu1uRvErM80
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9 fucking kilograms!? For my fellow Americans, that’s almost 20 pounds!
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Easy solution : have a pure gold necklace, since gold isn't magnetic
Easier solution: take off your damned metal necklace.
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Dude was wearing a 20lb chain while his wife was getting an MRI.
She freaked, and yelled for him, and he ran into the room while the machine was still on and fucking died.
This is 100% their fault, I could almost see an argument that the door needs a lock to prevent idiots with 20l s of metal around their neck from running in, but you don't want to lock everyone out in case there's an issue.
I’m just thinking about the poor woman. She’s forever going to be haunted with the knowledge that she was the one who called him into the room, and thus led to his death. His decision to come in wasn’t thought out, but that probably won’t relieve her feelings of guilt for having called him in. Such a tragic story.
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18kt gold is an alloy with 75% gold and other metals that may be magnetic. I wouldn't trust a gold chain around my neck with an MRI.
So, an all aluminum chain then?
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I’m just thinking about the poor woman. She’s forever going to be haunted with the knowledge that she was the one who called him into the room, and thus led to his death. His decision to come in wasn’t thought out, but that probably won’t relieve her feelings of guilt for having called him in. Such a tragic story.
She's not going to have one whit of self awareness. I may be going out on a limb here, but it doesn't sound like he was exactly the sharpest bulb in the ocean, and her reported cry to "turn off" the MRI (despite the repeated screenings you get prior to an MRI, warnimg patients about metal) indicate she isn't either. She's 100% gonna blame the provider and sue, adding to the rising cost of healthcare.
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9 fucking kilograms!? For my fellow Americans, that’s almost 20 pounds!
Can you convert that to tennis balls? I can't do this math on my own
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Can you convert that to tennis balls? I can't do this math on my own
wrote last edited by [email protected]Somewhere between 150 and 160, depending on the tennis balls. Hope this helps
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=9kg+%2F+mass+of+a+tennis+ball
Edit: Additionally, that's about 63½ European swallows, assuming an average weight of 5 ounces. Given that a European swallow must beat its wings 43 times per second to maintain airspeed velocity, it'd be a proper racket.
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Those numbers are from monty python and the holy grail and are very wrong. I am spreading misinformation online.
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That's nothing. Remember the guy who brought his gun with him and the machine helped him shoot himself?
I think it was a cop too. Mri machines doing a service to humanity
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She's not going to have one whit of self awareness. I may be going out on a limb here, but it doesn't sound like he was exactly the sharpest bulb in the ocean, and her reported cry to "turn off" the MRI (despite the repeated screenings you get prior to an MRI, warnimg patients about metal) indicate she isn't either. She's 100% gonna blame the provider and sue, adding to the rising cost of healthcare.
Aren't you just a shining beacon of logical, data-driven level-headedness. The fuck is she supposed to do, mentally recite each sign she saw on her way in as her spouse is being crushed before to determine if her request is feasible? Crawl out of the MRI, past her dying partner, and go read the manual to see if the MRI has an emergency stop capability before asking the technicians to intervene?
I wish you the best in your future human interactions. I hope very few of them are life-threatening because clearly, you'll be of no help if you deem the situation avoidable or deem help unlikely to be successful.
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Can you convert that to tennis balls? I can't do this math on my own
wrote last edited by [email protected]It's seventy-nine sticks of butter, plus a pat or two
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Dude was wearing a 20lb chain while his wife was getting an MRI.
She freaked, and yelled for him, and he ran into the room while the machine was still on and fucking died.
This is 100% their fault, I could almost see an argument that the door needs a lock to prevent idiots with 20l s of metal around their neck from running in, but you don't want to lock everyone out in case there's an issue.
Just for your information, the machine, meaning the magnet, is ALWAYS on.
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Somewhere between 150 and 160, depending on the tennis balls. Hope this helps
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=9kg+%2F+mass+of+a+tennis+ball
Edit: Additionally, that's about 63½ European swallows, assuming an average weight of 5 ounces. Given that a European swallow must beat its wings 43 times per second to maintain airspeed velocity, it'd be a proper racket.
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Those numbers are from monty python and the holy grail and are very wrong. I am spreading misinformation online.
:::And if it's an African swallow?
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I think it was a cop too. Mri machines doing a service to humanity
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It's seventy-nine sticks of butter, plus a pat or two
Aka 6 "knobs," according to Gordon Ramsey.
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9 fucking kilograms!? For my fellow Americans, that’s almost 20 pounds!
wrote last edited by [email protected]I always knew Roughneck McGee would meet a tragic end. Ironically he wasn't even wearing his BIG necklace.
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Somewhere between 150 and 160, depending on the tennis balls. Hope this helps
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=9kg+%2F+mass+of+a+tennis+ball
Edit: Additionally, that's about 63½ European swallows, assuming an average weight of 5 ounces. Given that a European swallow must beat its wings 43 times per second to maintain airspeed velocity, it'd be a proper racket.
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
Those numbers are from monty python and the holy grail and are very wrong. I am spreading misinformation online.
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