Yeah. This is a Bad Thing.
Apparently he took it off and tried to lay it onto a cabinet. Just a lllllittle too close...
Posted on 01/29/2018 11:27:38 AM PST by nickcarraway
The death highlights a major issue civic-run hospitals have — patients’ relatives have to conduct work meant for hospital’s class II and III employees.
A 32-year-old man died at BYL Nair Municipal Hospital in Mumbai on Saturday night after he was reportedly sucked into a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine while holding a metallic oxygen cylinder in his hand. Three people, including a doctor, have been arrested.
Rajesh Maruti Maru (32) had accompanied his sister’s mother-in-law, Laxmibai Solanki, to the hospital’s MRI section for a test. Around 8.30 pm, he reportedly got trapped with a leaking oxygen cylinder inside the MRI machine.
“Magnetic force of the machine sucked him in. We are not sure how he went so close. An inquiry is on,” said Dr Ramesh Bharmal, Dean, Nair Hospital. Staffers claimed that the cylinder’s knob broke open when Maru was pulled in, causing it to leak. Maru inhaled an excessive amount of oxygen.
The police registered a case under Section 304A of the Indian Penal Code for causing ‘death by negligence’, against hospital staffers. A doctor, Saurabh Lanjekar, ward boy Vitthal Chavan, and a helper, Sunita Surve, who were present with the family inside the MRI room, were named in the FIR and have been arrested. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced compensation of Rs 5 lakh to Maru’s kin.
Family Members Speak To Media After Man Dies In Freak Accident In Mumbai Hospital's MRI Room
According to Maru’s family, who are residents of Lalbaug, he was holding the oxygen cylinder for Laxmibai Solanki, who was scheduled to undergo the MRI scan. He was reportedly told not to leave the cylinder outside the MRI room. The family says no guard tried to stop them from entering the MRI room.
The family says later, inside the room, Maru was told to assist the hospital staff in positioning the patient for the MRI machine. “The ward boy asked him to help. They said it was okay. He went close to the machine and instead got pulled along with the oxygen cylinder inside the machine. Instead of taking responsibility, the hospital workers scolded us for Rajesh having gone close to the MRI machine with the cylinder in his hand,” said Maru’s sister Priyanka Solanki, who was also present in the MRI room.
The family claims the ward boy did not even check if the machine was switched on when Maru went close to it.
mumbai mri death, mri death, mumbai man dead, medical negligence, devendra fadnavis, nair hospital, mri machine death, indian express Family members of the victim who died after getting sucked into MRI machine in Mumbai’s Nair Hospital (Source: Express photo by Ganesh Shirsekar) Staffers said Maru’s hand holding the cylinder got stuck in the MRI machine, and that the ward boy and family members pulled him out. He was reportedly rushed to the emergency ward of the hospital within 10 minutes, but declared brought dead.
A postmortem at J J Hospital indicated that Maru died due to pneumothorax, a condition where excessive air enters the lung pockets. “Excessive quantity of oxygen entered his body from the cylinder, which is also harmful. He seemed to have died instantly because of that. Apart from that there were injury marks on both his hands,” a forensic doctor said.
Maru had no other trauma injuries.
Usually, when a patient is taken for an MRI scan, he or she is told to remove jewellery and other items that can be attracted by magnetic charge. Jignesh Thakker, the general secretary of the Indian Radiological & Imaging Association, said that when switched on, an MRI machine’s magnetic force is very powerful. “We usually have to call in the company technician if anything gets sucked into the MRI machine, the impact is such. It is not easy to pull anything out immediately,” he said.
The incident again highlighted the issue of municipal hospitals routinely asking patients to assist ward staff. “No one gave us instructions. How will we know what to do?” Maru’s shocked sister Priyanka said. Brother-in-law Harish Solanki said the hospital must be held accountable for the death.
While Nair Hospital’s Radiology Department head remained unavailable for comment, Dean Bharmal said, “The hospital staff accompanies the patient in such procedures. Protocol is followed.” The hospital authorities have submitted CCTV footage from outside the diagnostic room to investigators.
Laxmibai Solanki, the patient who was to undergo the MRI scan, remains admitted in the medical intensive care unit of Nair Hospital.
Senior Police Inspector Savalaram Agawane said the hospital employees were detained for questioning on Sunday and arrested by the evening. “Relatives should ideally not be allowed inside the MRI room. The ward boy or doctor should have also told the family not to take the oxygen cylinder close to the machine,” Agawane said.
It takes days to die from oxygen poisoning.
Why did they leave him in there for days?
O2 bottle is never supposed to enter the scan room
Darwin Award. He should have known not to go into the room with anything metallic.
Prison guards have to leave their guns outside the room when escorting an inmate patient into the room.
They will ask and let you know the later you may feel a warming and tell them if you’re t gets too bad
Was a famous case in the community in NYC where a cop refused to check his gun walked into the room and it was yanked out of the holster and discharged. Luckily no one died
Yes. Breathing 100% oxygen does NOT cause a pneumothorax. In fact high oxygen concentrations are used to treat small pneomothoraxes without operative intervention
If ze is gender fluid ze can be anything.
When I did anesthesia for MRI we had aluminum O2 tanks. Our Anesthesia machine was designed for MRI machine use. You have to get fairly close to the MRI machine with magnetic material to have a problem. Once you cross that point the magnetic object is buried in the machine. There are you tube vidios of people placing metal objects into MRI machines. They can be pretty entertaining. MRI machines can also “quench”. The electromagnets are cooled by liquid nitrogen. If the cooling apparatus fails the MRI machine will release nitrogen in a rather dramatic fashion. MRI rooms have O2 monitors so if a nitrogen leak reduces O2 levels the staff will be earned. Look up metal objects MRI and MRI quenching.
Yeah. This is a Bad Thing.
Apparently he took it off and tried to lay it onto a cabinet. Just a lllllittle too close...
One source mentioned liquefied gas; but, failed to distinguish whether an oxygen or helium cryogen was the culprit.
I’ve worked med devices for about 18 years now (manufacturing, supply chain, etc). 12 of it was for GE mainly in MRIs
The stories I’ve heard about inadvertent quenchings, metal taken in the room, etc
Then there was a guy - I think in Brazil - that disabled an auto shutoff to run some test scans - left the place unattended and the body coil overheated to the point the epoxy caught fire. Lost the whole suite - managed to save the rest of the building though.
Here’s a veterinary version that didn’t have a proper setup for Helium boil off, over-pressurized, and exploded: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2983440/One-man-fighting-life-two-injured-MRI-machine-exploion-New-Jersey-animal-hospital.html
There was one in India where they found the emergency quench wasn’t even wired.
Between the cryogens, magnetic field, high voltage, and potential pressures the things can be very dangerous if not installed, maintained, and operated properly.
That sucks.
That’s the one... my understanding is he was directed to put it in the provided lockable locker outside the room, but took it into the room anyway.
Only way to remove it at that point is to ramp down the magnet - I can’t remember for sure how long ramping down and back up takes, but it isn’t a very quick process ... want to say on the order of a day or so each way... but I may be thinking of the helium fill... been a few years and I never really worked the service side.
Thank you for sharing.
I have no knowledge of MRIs but a year or two ago I thought I read a thread here on FR that MRIs have some kind of emergency dump system to kill the magnetism very quickly if needed.
Yes that’s called an emergency quench - but if you do it you vent all the helium in the magnet and blow out the safety. Very costly, very long time to recover. You can ramp down gradually without losing all the helium - though you still lose some- and you don’t lose the safety either.
Theres something being lost in translation. He didnt die from too much oxygen IN his lungs. He had a pneumothorax. Apparently the force of being dragged in, or impact from the flying bottle, hit him hard enough for the lung itself to pop. The gasses leak out and are trapped BETWEEN the lung and the pleural sac. The lungs are compressed and collapse under the pressure.
Not turned to steel in a great magnetic field.
And where is Ward Cleaver.
Who shouldn’t be so hard on the Beaver...according to his wife.
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