• Tudsamfa@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    After reading another article: nope, necklace was just a huge locket on a chain. And the wife said “Keith, Keith, come help me up” which sound to me like:

    • wife was making a big fuss for no good reason
    • husband obeyed as any good husband would
    • technician didn’t inform the husband that his wife would be carted out of the MRI room and failed to react fast enough

    If I was married and a bit dumber, I could probably also be lured to my death with my name being called out twice in that fashion. Really depends how good the signage was and how well the husband was informed.

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      15 hours ago

      They have extensive screening and education and safeguard procedures, for the patients. I’m guessing hubby skipped (probably wasn’t even offered) all those and just dashed in the door when called. Tech still should have put hubby through “the talk” if he was anywhere close to the door to the room.

      MRI is one of the most sci-fi come to life technologies most people are likely to encounter in their lives. Superconducting magnets are about as non-intuitive as it gets, once they get you past the point of your ability to resist the force, there’s no recovery - you’re going faster and faster until the metal hits the housing. There have been multiple accidents with steel oxygen cylinders - for the obvious reason: they’re so common in the environment where MRIs are used, and it’s no small feat to get the cylinder removed.

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      17 hours ago

      Uhm, article I read said it was a training accessory and the wife had fallen on the floor and needed help.

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        17 hours ago

        But the husband was called to get her off the table? And she did help in trying to get him unstuck? How are there so many important details to this?

        That’s it, as fun as it is to speculate, I think I’ll reserve my judgement until after this has gone to court.

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          15 hours ago

          The major failure in this case was lack of education / restraint of the husband. Before he got within 25 feet of the MRI room door, he should have had “the talk” about metal objects and MRIs not mixing, deadly consequences, etc. Other things could have helped, but I suspect the local safety procedures are patient focused and hubby didn’t get properly educated before entering the danger zone.