There's a video too.
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?
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.
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.
That’s not the machine’s fault.
An idiot would know not to have metal near an MRI.
Crisis of competence.
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.
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”...
At one hospital I was at previously, an X-ray tech had some extra time one night, so he decided to vacuum the MRI room. Tore up the inside of the machine, which had to be replaced (so was he).
It can suck the iron out of your blood like Magneto.
The power of a couple Teslas
Lawyer Dies After Shot By His Own Concealed Gun Triggered By MRI Scanner
That’s not an MRI safety flaw. That’s a training flaw.
Typical click baiting headline.
The trainee should be fired and or removed from the program.
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?
Brother was in charge of maintenance of such equipment. One time janitor went into MRI room with floor polishing/scrubbing machine. Hilarity ensued.
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.