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Tuesday, January 06, 2009

I came across this video on MRI safety

when looking for something for a patron. Using a watermelon, an MRI, and a ferrous-based cylinder, it demonstrates the dangers of metal objects near the imager. There was an actual case a few years ago of a six-year-old boy killed because someone overlook just such a cannister. It's a little graphic (if you remember that someone died in a similar manner), but well worth remembering.


via videosift.com

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately, accidents in which ferromagnetic materials are brought into the MRI room still happen on a regular basis. There have been spates of floor buffers, chairs, and even a radiologist who thought that the MRI would be good to wipe their hard-drive.

The good news is that there are now specialty metal detection systems (actually, ferromagnetic detectors) that can alarm on materials that are magnetically attracted, while not alarming on the aluminum, titanium, brass and other metals from which so many implements are made for MRI safety.

There's lots more information on these types of accidents, costs and preventions at my blog...

http://mrimetaldetector.com/blog/