Posted on 09/06/2024 2:24:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
True, some won’t know until the machine is turned on. I would think machinists would be one. They could habe embedded metal bits and never realize it. Of course there is always the low IQ crowd that forgets a body piercing or a new tattoo.
How could this happen when the technician obviously got straight A’s in the DEI classes at the tech school”?
Which Mountain View? Which state?
My father-in-law had an MRI. He told them he had a knee replacement. They said that would not be a problem.
The machine twisted his leg in knots, with his foot up beside his head. They heard his screams and turned the machine off.
Doctors said the mangled knee replacement was too much of a mess to try and remove.
He never walked again. He had always been very active, but now couldn’t get out of bed without help. He died less than a year later.
“””Which Mountain View? Which state?”””
Given the incident-—sure sounds like the one in California.
Brother was in charge of maintenance of such equipment. One time janitor went into MRI room with floor polishing/scrubbing machine. Hilarity ensued.
What about Kryptonite?
That is tragic.
If you are a doctor you get to “practice” and if you do a porn movie you are automatically a “star”.
OMG, that is awful. I’m so sorry to hear that.
This is as stupid as bringing live firearms into the make believe world of a movie set. Theres no reason for this and its not like it takes special training to know what a stupid idea this is.
At what point do we ask how much of this with MRIs are we going to put up with? These stories arent all that uncommon.
Somewhere along the line we need to realize that this has nothing to do with poor training. When these kinds of things happen repeatedly the problem becomes higher level management and those that oversee and create rules for fields and industry.
While the global population crisis isnt expected to be as bad in the United States as elsewhere it will definitely show up in American nursing as GenX begins retiring the “properly trained” number of American nurses is going to crash. Mills & Zs arent going to be able to handle the stresses previous gens did and will either quit or be out half the time on mental health breaks and this will require even further low level foreign staff with even more questionable training.
These things like tanks, poles, and wheel chairs should long ago have been switched to being produced in fiberglass, aluminum, or other materials. Hospitals could paint this equipment...MMMMagenta for MMMRI(?)...and designate areas near the MRI labs as only allowing the alternate material items. Have a Hoyer at the border to swap people out of their own chairs, etc. As much as I dislike insurance companies effectively making a law through the policy small type maybe its time they make it a requirement if a hospital expects to be covered.
At the risk of sounding like your mother, its all fun and games until someone catches a flying wheelchair in the head.
NEED video of this “trainee” plus name.
MRI-safe equipment was introduced decades ago. The trainee brought in a regular wheelchair, violating rules and obviously wasn’t trained or supervised properly.
Horrible example of medical malpractice.
Apparently it isnt as commonly available and used as much as it should be or there arent strict enough policies being enforced. Maybe they need to start passing people though a metal scanner on the way in to the lab area.
Knowing that somewhere out there is an aluminum wheelchair that should have been used will not help remove the steel one from a persons anus.
When someone is brought in maybe they need to be brought to a space in the waiting room to be scanned or something.
This idea that this can keep happening is no longer just a training issue. Consider it an additional safety protocol. Most commercial butchers dont reeeallly need that scalemail armor, they know enough not to stab themselves. Other than Boeing most aircraft dont reeeallly need oxygen masks, the windows dont fall out at high altitude all that often. Submarines dont reeeeallly need to be made of metal...well, ya, maybe they should be.
DEI NO MERIT
Seconded.
I have felt the snaps on my pants tugging when near a MRI. Unfortunately, there are a lot of images of things stuck in a MRI.
They have to shut it down to get the foreign objects out and it’s real expensive.
Luckily Silver fillings are not magnetic.
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