• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    Reading more about the story I wonder how much of it is true

    You can’t just “walk into an MRI room”, for one

    When the MRI is working you definitely can’t just walk in. Nobody is in there because of the radiation, so i doubt they just have an open door policy

    Then, when there is an emergency like, you know, someone being strangled with a 9kg necklace on his neck by the machine’s magnetism, you can press the kill switch that will quench the magnet by venting out all cooling liquid. This will damage the machine and is also a very expensive little joke, but it would save the life of that guy. Why didn’t they do that?

    It’s a similar story to the guy that went into an MRI with a gun, causing it to fire and kill the guy.

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      Nobody is in there because of the radiation

      What are you saying, there is no radiation in an MRI Scanner. It works with Magnets instead of X-Rays.

      Nobody is in there because usually there is only one operator and this guy sits in the next room at his metal computer, which can’t be in the MRI room, looking at the scan results. The doors are closed because MRIs are loud as hell.

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      I’m just going through the comments spreading MRI information (source: work with MRI scanners). There is no radiation danger from MRI.

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          I recently tried spreading the word to other MRI folks about the dangers of ‘magnetic eyelashes’, which i learned was a thing from my fiance. Kind of suprised we havent seen any incidents with those, thankfully.