He didn’t see new Final Destination movie.
9 kilograms Necklace?! What kind of necklace is that?
The man, 61, had entered the MRI room while a scan was underway
How was that allowed?
he asked the technician to get her husband to help her get off the table.
…while the machine was still working? And isn’t that the job of the technician anyway?
the technician helped her try to pull her husband off the machine but it was impossible.
Those machines have a kill-switch for a reason.
I call this BS or a very incompetent technician.
Plus a Darwin award for the guy.Couple things:
The magnet is ALWAYS on.
The “kill switch” takes about five minutes to actually deactivate the magnet and it costs about thirty grand in helium every time you push it.
Isn’t it an electomagnet?
it costs about thirty grand in helium every time you push it.
Oh, right, i forgot human lives have a price in the US.
It’s not an electromagnet, it’s a superconducting magnet. And turning it immediately off makes it melt.
Surely 9kg necklace isn’t something you can just sneak around with, how was he allowed to get close enough to an MRI machine in the first place wearing it?
Hospitals aren’t jails or high security government facilities. I could walk around a hospital right now and walk into an MRI room and nobody would physically stop me. I used to work in a hospital and we had a long meeting about signs, because a cleaner didn’t look at the door sign and walked into an MRI room with a metal floor buffer.
So glad to find that Lemmy is even less empathetic than reddit was. Real faith in humanity killer. Shocking how many people decided to comment without touching the article, really proud to be here…
This is why our education system is under funded.
As if my claustrophobia wasn’t enough reason to irrationally strongly dislike the idea of needing to get an MRI again…
Who cares about a moron who needs a 9kg necklace, how’s the MRI machine?
It was for weight training
Yes, I remember the part in Pumping Iron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, where he was using a 9kg necklace in preparation for his role in The Terminator.
This is stupid. He knew his wife was getting an MRI. He was an irresponsible ass and ignoramus. What was more important? His wife’s MRI or his precious necklace weight training, at 61 no less?
And he had multiple heart attacks? The picture of health.
And now a MRI machine is out of order, how many people’s tests have to be rescheduled for one 61 year old’s fantasies of being a weight training badass? Your wife needed an MRI, put the high school jock nonsense aside for an hour or two.
“It was for weight training”. Fuck me.
Why are you being this way
Cube: MRI
Dude didn’t watch Final Destination Bloodlines 💀
What kind of hospital let him get near the room with that kind of metal around his neck? I’ve had to be in several hospitals recently for different imaging issues and every time the MRI is a thing I have to remove everything metal to go past a certain door (escorting my daughter and son for medical reasons). I don’t know who let him anywhere near the room with something that large.
He wasn’t supposed to be in the room. There was a scan in progress when he entered.
Seems to me all they needed was a magnet of equal or greater strength placed opposite of, and perhaps a bit closer to the doorway, to pull intruders away from the MRI room.
all they needed was a magnet of equal or greater strength
MRI magnets are electromagnets that are supercooled with liquid helium and take hours to start or stop because of the electrical energy that has to be put in or taken out.
So just having a magnet of equal strengh for idiot defense would be a very significant waste of electricity and helium unfortunately
take hours to start or stop
You mean they’re in constant operation the whole shift?
Surely dialed way down in between scans?
Maybe lockable doors
Idk bc some of the articles seem to be contradicting but apparently the door had a lock and the deck opened it
His wife told News 12 Long Island in a recorded interview that she was undergoing an MRI on her knee when she asked the technician to get her husband to help her get off the table. She said she called out to him.
Whole thing is heart breaking all around. I feel for the technician who made an honest but very serious mistake. And I’m sure the wife will spend her days regretting asking for help. Just a fucking tragic situation. :/
the technician who made an honest but very serious mistake.
You mean letting someone in while the machine was in operation?
So many dumb ways to die…
Another Darwin award.
Only if he didn’t have kids.
9 fucking kilograms!? For my fellow Americans, that’s almost 20 pounds!
I feel like someone should have noticed. I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen someone wearing a twenty pound necklace.
So, if the MRI spins at 12 RPM, does the dude also spin at 12 RPM?
Asking for a friend.
The detector spins around the patient, but does the magnetic field spin too? I though not, but I’m not that certain.
Nope, the detector is separate from the magnet - the magnet encircles the patient completely, and doesn’t move. I’m sure the magnetic field is affected slightly by the rotating machinery, but that should be consistent and would be accounted for in the imaging algorithms.
I imagine his head was plucked like a ripe tomato in the garden.
I doubt it, obviously depending on the applied force.
Skin is rather tough to rip with a blunt tool so yeah, maybe the head was disconnected from the spine immediately, making him look like a giraffe spinning at 12 RPM round and round.
Don’t know how quickly custom vinyl stickers can be bought & delivered, but someone needs to slap a “Died Like A Cartoon Character” achievement on his casket/headstone.
put one on the MRI. how many of them actually score a fatality?
