Posts Tagged ‘television’
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
…off the MRI magnet!”
Yes, that’s right, a recent news story from the NBC television affiliate station in Jacksonville, Florida, provides an account of how an off-duty police officer’s pistol wound up stuck to their MRI scanner, and cost the provider something in the neighborhood of $150,000 to remove!
Click For A Link To The Original Story…
Tags: accident, Florida, gun, imaging, Jacksonville, magnetic, MRI, news, pistol, radiology, resnonance, safety, screen, Technologist, television, TV
Posted in Ferromagnetic Detection for MRI Safety, Other MRI Safety | 1 Comment »
Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Nearly all MRI accidents that wind up the subject of civil lawsuits conclude the same way… in confidential settlement protected by a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). This makes it extremely difficult to get to the facts associated with any particular accident. Currently the highest profile MRI accident (the death of a young boy from a flying oxygen cylinder) is in pre-trial litigation and is our best window into the legal responsibility of Technologists and providers. Today, however, I learned of another suit in which a Tech is suing her former employer for willfully putting off needed system repairs that compromised image quality and diagnostic value.
Click to Read More About This MRI Safety Lawsuit…
Tags: coil, colombini, daignostic, death, diagnosis, fatality, FL, Florida, Horizon, image quality, injury, lawsuit, magnetic, maintenance, MRI, news, practice, protocol, resonance, safety, standard of care, suit, Technologist, television, TV, Westchester
Posted in Other MRI Safety | 3 Comments »
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
A very common question asked about ferromagnetic detection systems is, “will it find __________ [insert the object of your choice: pacemaker, cell phone, pocket knife, intra-orbital fragments...]?” Funny, but in the hundreds, if not thousands, of times that question has been posed to me, never once has it been, “will it find a nail I stuck in my nose 30 years ago?”
Click To Read How This Isn’t A Joke Question…
Tags: detect, ferromagnetic, foreign body, magnet, metal, MRI, nail, news, nose, story, television
Posted in Ferromagnetic Detection for MRI Safety, Other MRI Safety | 2 Comments »
Friday, December 12th, 2008
I have a serial weakness for medical dramas. I get sucked-in and watch for a couple of seasons before the absurdity catches up with me. With respect to MRI, it seems that 99% of the time the shows are so wildly off-base that it seems that each must outdo its own crazy scenarios (and those of the other medical dramas) to come up with a new MRI-related plot gimmick.
But then, typically after I’ve lost all hope of seeing anything that approaches reality, something plausible and even downright real is shown on one of these programs…
Click to read more and see the real MRI accident photo…
Tags: accident, anecdote, bed, death, doctor, drama, ER, House, image, injury, magnetic resonance, medical, missile, MRI, patient, projectile, safety, Technologist, television, translational, urban legend, video
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