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In this next section we're going to be discussing some of the MRI injury

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risk factors.

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Now many of the most photogenic risks are the ones

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with objects or devices that fly into the magnet.

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This was an accident that occurred just a matter of weeks prior to this

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recording. Uh,

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patient with a mobility assist device for a

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non-weight-bearing foot or ankle surgery.

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The patient was purportedly instructed to simply wait outside the magnet room.

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The technologist stepped away for a minute and the patient thought they were

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being helpful.

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Walking into the room after I shared that first

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image,

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I got a slew of other ones also accidents that had occurred within

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a week or two's timeframe. This is a transport chair.

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This is a wheelchair. Purportedly,

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this particular accident was going to cost seven figures in terms

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of repair to the MR system and downtime.

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So simple accidents can have disproportionately large cost

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consequences. A little difficult to see this. This is grainy.

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This is taken through the control room window.

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So we're seeing the RF screen in the observation window,

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but this appears to me to be an MR.

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Conditional oxygen cylinder that's probably in a

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conventional trolley.

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So the magnet attracted the trolley, if not the cylinder,

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and stuck it to the face of the boar of the magnet.

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This was a syringe pump for the bolus injections

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in ct.

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Somebody brought the CT syringe injector pump into the

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MRI environment with some pretty disastrous results.

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This is a floor cleaner.

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This is an accident in which somebody at the site attached an

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MR conditional infusion pump to an IV pole and brought it into the room.

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Although the IV pole itself was not MR Conditional,

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the photograph here is after the MR conditional pump had been removed.

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And obviously we have a couple of hospital staffers trying desperately

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to keep the IV pole from flying the rest of the way into the magnet.

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Here is a vent brought too close to the MRI scanner.

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I suspect just based on the image that that is a particular

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brand of MR. Conditional vent,

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one of the conditions of its safe use is to be kept

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a certain distance

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Away from the magnet,

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not defined so much by distance as the magnetic field to which the vent

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is exposed. And then if you're interested in a long read,

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this is a story.

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The QR code will take you to an article in which at an

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imaging center that was imaging prisoners transported from the local prison,

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the prisoner was walked into the MRI scanner room

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with the chain around the abdomen and handcuffs on the chain around

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their waist was attracted to the mri and the prisoner was stuck to

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the MRI and in pain and screaming.

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The guard who was guarding the prisoner heard screams,

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didn't know whether those screams were coming from the prisoner or the MRI

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technologist.

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The guard runs into the magnet room with their utility

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belt, including pistols and handcuffs and all of the accoutrement.

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And the guard also gets stuck to the MRI scanner.

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In the beginning of 2023,

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there was a lot of noise made about this

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particular accident. This accident occurred in Brazil,

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but it was an adult man who was escorting his mother

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for her mri.

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And he walks into the magnet room with a pistol and the magnet

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pulls the pistol from its holster or from its concealment,

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and somehow it initiates the pistol to fire around and

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shoots the man in the back or the abdomen.

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And he succumbed to his injuries a couple of weeks after the accident had

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occurred. Now, this accident that we looked at earlier,

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the patient with the mobility assist device.

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So after this scooter gets stuck in the bore of the magnet,

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all of the available staff from this imaging center all gather round to try and

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extract and pull the scooter out of the magnet.

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It is not at all uncommon for feral magnetic objects to

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exert hundreds, perhaps even a thousand times.

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The force that they normally experience due to gravity downward force,

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it is in entirely common for them to experience hundreds if not a thousand

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times the force in the horizontal direction from magnetic attraction.

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So they've got the whole team of techs and staff

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about ready to pull this scooter out of the bore.

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When the patient whose scooter this is asks about getting

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their firearm,

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the patient was an off-duty police officer and in the bag

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at the handle of this

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Scooter was the police officer's firearm. Well, needless to say,

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they stopped trying to pull the scooter out of the MRI at that point and instead

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called for the OEM to ramp the system down.

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And if you want a further example of just how much

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power there is in the magnetic attraction of a feral magnetic object

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you're going to see in this video,

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you're gonna see four adults with a rope pulling

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a pistol off of an MRI scanner. And again,

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the attractive force exerted by an MRI on a

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ferromagnetic object is several hundred,

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perhaps 8,000 times whatever the weight of that object is.

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So a pistol maybe weighs five pounds.

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The force of attraction acting on that pistol towards the MRI

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could potentially be several thousand pounds of force.

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This is another accident that caught the attention of many of us.

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This was an I C U patient who was brought

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down to MRI on a conventional hospital bed.

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And while the MRI technologist turned

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their back for a moment to answer the phone or enter patient

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information into one of the computer systems,

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the nurse who brought the patient down and was presumably MRI

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safety trained,

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brings the hospital bed with the ICU patient on it

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into the MRI scanner room. Now thankfully,

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the ICU patient was just sort of tossed off the

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bed and landed on the floor some bumps and bruises, but otherwise unharmed.

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The nurse on the other hand was not so lucky.

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The nurse initially was actually between the bed and the MRI

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scanner and was pinned with the force of the

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bed being attracted to the MRI scanner.

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And per accounts that I've heard,

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they actually sort of pulled the nurse sideways out from between the bed

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and the MRI scanner.

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The nurse was badly injured as a result of this particular accident.