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"The man entered a room at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, on New York's Long Island, without permission as the MRI machine was running..." People think they can
by htk 1y ago
"The man entered a room at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, on New York's Long Island, without permission as the MRI machine was running..."
People think they can do anything they want nowadays.
- tyleo 1y agoPeople have always thought they could do anything. If you think this is crazy you should see some of the stuff people have been doing with cars and motorcycles for the last 5 decades.
- yard2010 1y agoI don't get it how in the world someone can just enter the room when the device is on. Trusting people to read signs and follow the rules is borderline insane. A simple lock mechanism could spare life here.
- phkahler 1y ago>> I don't get it how in the world someone can just enter the room when the device is on. The magnet is always on. His wife was in the room. Unless you're previously aware of the dangers of an MRI machine it looks like any other exam room with some equipment in it. It's up to the staff to inform and keep people out and enforce that. IMHO he should not have even been in the outer room wearing a chain like that.
- Ajedi32 1y agoThis article[1] has a good overview of safety procedures already in use at other facilities: > Melonie Longacre, VP of Operations at Northwell Health, explained MRI safety protocols, emphasizing the importance of multizone procedures to ensure safety around the powerful magnet. > "Zone I is just for awareness that there’s an MRI in the vicinity, Zone II is the patient screening zone where they get screened. Zone III is the post-screening zone, and Zone IV is the actual magnet room," she said. "It’s important to be educated and safe." It's unclear if Nassau Open MRI (where this incident took place) had similar safety protocols. I'm guessing not. [1]: https://www.fox5ny.com/news/long-island-mri-freak-accident https://www.fox5ny.com/news/long-island-mri-freak-accident
- SketchySeaBeast 1y agoWhile wearing "a 20lb (9kg) chain with a lock that he used for weight training."
- foobarian 1y agoIt's literally like reading a guide "How to kill yourself with an MRI machine" and following it step by step
- SketchySeaBeast 1y agoStep 1: Affix excessively large metallic decapitation device. Step 2: Lock metallic decapitation device in place.
- thr0waway001 1y agoDude, exactly what I was thinking. Even if the staff weren’t telling me to remove it I would instinctively do the math: big fat metal chain + big fat powerful magnet = disaster. In fact, whenever I hear MRI I instantly think dental fillings. You’d think the patients and their handlers would instinctively think about all the metal they carry. How could big fat metal chain on neck not come to mind?
- isolli 1y agoA tragic anecdote has shaken France recently, when an unsupervised 6-year old entered a NICU, took a premature baby and dropped her on the floor. She died of her injuries a few hours later. The same questions are being asked: how come anyone can enter a NICU? How could the parents let an unsupervised child roam the hospital? How come no one intervened? The worst part is that other parents had complained about the unsupervised child the day before. Failures all along... that's often how accidents happen.
- Workaccount2 1y agoI wish there was a solid way to balance the weight of a tragedy (sans the kneejerk human emotional reaction) against the proposed solution. Freak accidents will always happen, and if mitigation is simple and cheap, we should do it. But as soon as we get into the territory of "NICU doors need to be locked with keycard access" (causing every doctor and nurse to do a badge scan 40-50 times a day) then I think it's ok to have 1 infant death every 50 years globally because of it.
- ljsprague 1y agoBabies also get stolen though.
- potato3732842 1y agoMy rule of thumb for any big organization (like a hospital) is that nothing changes until there's a body to explain away. Yeah, sometimes enough fractional close calls add up (usually to a big lawsuit) and policy changes without and death, but don't bet on it. But, on the other end of the spectrum, having all sorts of absurd policy and procedure because someone might die so incredibly rarely we can't quantify it is terrible too.
- kube-system 1y agoThere are so many dangers in the world that society would grind to a halt if we tried to proactively prevent all of them.