A 61-year-old man who suffered critical injuries after being pulled into an MRI machine while wearing a metal chain has died, police said Friday.
The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon at a medical building in Westbury, New York, according to the Nassau County Police Department.
Officers responded to Nassau Open MRI following a 911 call and were informed that the man “entered an unauthorized Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) room while the scan was in progress,” the police department said in a statement.
Had to bring my daughter for an MRI recently. They are very very clear about removing all metal.
I had one a couple weeks ago. Where I went I had to be buzzed into a waiting room then buzzed into the MRI room itself. Without a card key or an escort there was no way for me to enter the room.
And yeah, I was also asked more than once about having any metal on me.
I wouldn’t trust people to tell the truth. People are idiots. I hope they also use metal detectors.
Wouldn’t want a doctor or nurse getting a prince Albert to the eye because the patient was too embarrassed to mention it.
People who have PA’s are not too embarrassed to mention them. 15 years is a paramedic has told me this.
I had an MRI recently and while they were obviously very strict about no metal on/in my body while scanning, my husband was allowed to stay in the room wearing his metal framed glasses and metal belt buckle, it wasn’t a problem. This makes me wonder how fucking big that chain was.
Yeah very similar experience. I asked about the button on my jeans as the second person in the room and that was fine. He must have been very very close to the magnets.