Posted on 09/06/2024 2:24:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A patient recently escaped a harrowing experience while waiting for an MRI in a Mountain View imaging room.
A trainee brought a wheelchair – one that wasn't made to be near an MRI machine – into the room. And because of the magnetic force of the machine, the wheelchair was sucked across the room, attaching itself sideways to the MRI scanner door, narrowly missing the patient.
This freak occurrence is raising concerns among safety advocates, including MRI safety expert, Tobias Gilk, who shared this example and images with KTVU. He said a witness sent him photos from Mountain View Center Imaging, operated by Sutter Health, on April 1. "There was a patient on the table and this trainee brought the non-MRI-safe-wheelchair into the room, then the magnet attracted it and went flying at the scanner," he said.
A Mexican dentist "trainee" broke a drill bit off in one of my molars, and never told be about it.
When I started having problems, and went to a dental specialist in the USA (Yuma). I asked what the chance was of being able to remove the bit and save the tooth.
He said about 50-50. Of the five he worked on in the last week, he got three of them out...
All from dentists in Mexico. The US specialist said no malpractice in Mexico, and they reuse the drill bits there, which is why they break so many.
Yes, I know it is not exactly an "intentional" filling. I expect, though, the drill bit was steel and magnetic.
Also it seems that there is an increase in extremely negligent care even from physicians due to the increased frequency and level of substances in their systems. There was just another thread the other day about a surgeon killing the patient by removing the wrong organ and not knowing it.
With nurses and other techs presently doing extreme overtime hours I dont think we could even guess the number walking around half asleep not to mention which of them also have chemically induced instabilities while on duty.
Maybe creating an atrium to the lab with an airport metal detector just out of reach of the MRI is a good idea. No amount of signs and training will stop a failure caused by drugs and sleep but an alarm might alert the sober members of the team something is wrong before it all goes haywire.
Thanks. I don’t know why some posts don’t include the state when it is a little-known place or there are multiple towns with the same name.
Worked MRI manufacturing/quality/programs for nearly 15 years with GE and Philips.
The best story was the cop that refused to check his weapon into the lockbox they give you for valuables and went into the room despite the technicians protests...zip crash bang....weapon discharged...luckily no one was hurt...I think it was NY...this was like 25 years ago or something near to there.
Then there was the death of a kid due to an idiot taking in a ferrous oxygen bottle.
Lots of stories
I would be worried that the MRI would unzip my zipper. All kinds of things would happen.
California.
I know the difference and I had human anatomy with cadavers in 1960.
“The magnetic field generated by the MRI machine then reportedly caused the gun to discharge”
That’s their story and they’re sticking to it.
Cheap dumbasses get hired, too.
I’m 84 today. I use to start feeling better the moment I was close to the hospital.
I learned some hospitals are better than others. Does not help one feel better.
No doubt there were plenty of warnings....the problem is we have become immune to warnings and tune them out. I wish folks who want to put up a warning for every trivial thing would realize that it makes it more difficult to recognize real dangers.....
My sister told me of an incident with MRI machine. Person walked in the hallway by a MRI machine He had O2 tank in his hands. The door to the MRI machine room was not locked and the tank flew out of his hands into the room. The person in the machine was serious injured.
What do they do for emergency patients that are passed out but doctors need an mri?
When did he get his knees? I am trying to understand this in view of fact that knees have to be SS steel and have been so for a long time.....
By the way I’m getting new knees soon and so this is is quite pertinent....
I was told the difference between God and a doctor is, God knows he’s not a doctor.
“we have become immune to warnings and tune them out”
No kidding. California passed the Prop 65 initiative to put cancer warnings on products. Now EVERY PRODUCT, no matter how prosaic or benign, has a warning.
I upgraded to AT&T fiber last month. The fiber runs outside, through the ceprawl space, up the wall and terminates at a wall plate high in a closet. There’s a plastic jacket on the fiber. It plugs into their fiber terminus / router / Wi-Fi box. It’s a plastic electronics enclosure like hundreds of millions of similar comms boxes in everybody’s house.
A day after installing it, I got a text message from AT&T — “Products used to install fiber to your home are known to the State of California to cause cancer.”
Thank you.
My husband just got a new “smart knee” 3 months ago. I think it is pretty cool we can track different things with it. It lets us [& the Dr] know step count, distance, range of motion, walking speed & cadence. Amazing what modern medicine can do. Best of luck with your new knees... hope you have speedy, complete healing.
Can he slam dunk?
I think he got it in Waynesville, NC. Apparently, it was a metal that was non-standard.
No lawyers were interested in suing because it was the only facility in town
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