There's a video too.
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.
There's a video too.
Yeah, moron trainee. Giant electromagnet and large ferrous metal object should NOT be brought into proximity of each other!
It’s a magnet.
Did the trainee not know this?
Better not have an magnetic materials in your teeth...
What about tattoos? Don't some have metal?
Yea, and we are supposed to treat medical officials like they are some sort of god. I’ve seen enough stupidity in a hospital to wonder whether any of them ever got out of grade school.
I guess when they were told, it didn’t have enough resonance.
Well, doctor do think they are g-d.
Ever had an MRI?
I have. They ask a whole bunch of questions about metal in and on your body. I strongly advise anyone about to have an MRI to answer those questions honestly and completely. Too much information is better than not enough.
Wow. Months the “flaws have been exposed” you’ve gone a long way to remediating them. We’re going to give you a $200K contract as a consult for places, like this facility, have drooling imbeciles working for them.
I’m reminded, of course, of that case from South America a year or two ago where a guy brought a loaded gun to such a facility, with tragic results
This is a well known problem and is included in every mandatory MRI safety course that all medical personnel take. YouTube videos of engineers intentionally sending objects into the magnet like oxygen tanks, stretchers, IV poles.
DEI trainee
That’s not the machine’s fault.
An idiot would know not to have metal near an MRI.
Crisis of competence.
Some saw bones just “accidentally” removed some poor bstard’s liver instead of spleen. He died.
Last time I had a MRI I worried about the stailess rods in my back and the stainless mesh in my heart.
Good thing they were a type of stainless without ferrous content.
I wonder if they had to power down to remove the chair - those things can be a pain to bring back up to field.
My wife gets regular MRIs. There is a 2 page questionnaire that goes through all sorts of things asking about medical patches, tattoos, different types of implants, metal fragments, and such. It’s reviewed line by line by the radiation tech before she is allowed anywhere near the MRI room.
PAMF = Palo Alto Medical Foundation. Purchased by Sutter Health some years ago. That’s been my medical clinic since 1978. I’ll have to ask them about wheelchair safety protocols next time I need an MRI.
doctors and lawyers are the only professionals that legally get away with labeling what they do “practice”...
They are usually very good. I’d go there over Kaiser any day.
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