It is an interesting question. People with more MRI experience than I might have some information.
Image of xray showing broken drill bit.
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.
I tell that joke all the time.
“Fallout?” Yes, a zipper triggered Radiological Dispersal Device (Dirty Bomb). Yikes!
It is an interesting question. People with more MRI experience than I might have some information.
Image of xray showing broken drill bit.
There was a woman in New York who needed a root canal when she was skiing in France. She had problems when she returned to the US and came back to her dentist. OMG - the dentist in France had drilled all tge way through to her sinus and there was a big wad of filling up there that had to be removed.
Yikes. I am glad for my dentists.
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