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[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Carrying a 9kg necklace seems a bit silly. Though I suppose "for weight training" could just as well mean something medical, like needing to build up muscle mass after an operation.

What I need to know is: how is a man that was "not supposed to be in the room" specifically getting fetched by a technician to go into the room? I would have said "do not go past the antechamber" a dozen times on the way there. Did the wife calling out to him just turn off his brain, did the technician fail to inform him, or did they both not realise the metallic necklace was on him?

[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

After reading another article: nope, necklace was just a huge locket on a chain. And the wife said "Keith, Keith, come help me up" which sound to me like:

  • wife was making a big fuss for no good reason (might have had a reason according to a 3rd article)
  • husband obeyed as any good husband would
  • technician didn't inform the husband that his wife would be carted out of the MRI room and failed to react fast enough

If I was married and a bit dumber, I could probably also be lured to my death with my name being called out twice in that fashion. Really depends how good the signage was and how well the husband was informed.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 6 points 6 days ago

They have extensive screening and education and safeguard procedures, for the patients. I'm guessing hubby skipped (probably wasn't even offered) all those and just dashed in the door when called. Tech still should have put hubby through "the talk" if he was anywhere close to the door to the room.

MRI is one of the most sci-fi come to life technologies most people are likely to encounter in their lives. Superconducting magnets are about as non-intuitive as it gets, once they get you past the point of your ability to resist the force, there's no recovery - you're going faster and faster until the metal hits the housing. There have been multiple accidents with steel oxygen cylinders - for the obvious reason: they're so common in the environment where MRIs are used, and it's no small feat to get the cylinder removed.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Uhm, article I read said it was a training accessory and the wife had fallen on the floor and needed help.

[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

But the husband was called to get her off the table? Did she fall while the technician was away? Shouldn't there have been a 2nd person to supervise her, or is that too expensive? And she did help in trying to get him unstuck, so she could get up on her own then? How are there so many important details to this?

That's it, as fun as it is to speculate, I think I'll reserve my judgement until after this has gone to court.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 6 days ago

The major failure in this case was lack of education / restraint of the husband. Before he got within 25 feet of the MRI room door, he should have had "the talk" about metal objects and MRIs not mixing, deadly consequences, etc. Other things could have helped, but I suspect the local safety procedures are patient focused and hubby didn't get properly educated before entering the danger zone.

[–] Mad_Punda@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Can’t even begin to imagine how the wife feels now.

[–] DarthKaren@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

She probably feels pulled in 2 directions. The weight of calling in her husband to charge in and help her must be great. I'm sure the tech is also crushed that they weren't fast enough to oppose him entering the restricted area. It's a tragic set of circumstances that will hopefully attract more awareness of the dangers of entering the MRI area if you haven't properly prepared.

I had an MRI, many years ago, and had a very small sliver of metal in my finger tip. I didn't know it was in there still. I felt the pain of it pulling as soon as I left the MRI tech's control room.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 6 days ago

hes going to have neck problems if he had lived, 20lbs on the neck will cause spinal deformities, and disc disease.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What an unfortunate chain of events

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago

You son of a bitch lol

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 142 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I... want to see that 9 kg necklace. I mean, sounds like it's just a big-ass chain, but if so, how did it not throw up red flags all around letting this guy wear it around that machine.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 102 points 1 week ago (3 children)

how did it not throw up red flags all around letting this guy wear it around that machine.

He wasn't allowed in the room.

His wife panicked in the MRI, he charged into the room he was told not to go Into.

[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Imagine the scene from her POV. She's claustrophobic and having a meltdown because of all the hums and bangs and then her husband comes running in only to get pulled into the machine she is already stuck inside of. He's screaming and can't get pulled free while she is being pushed even harder into the machine she so desparately wants free from - by her husband who is quickly suffocating to death

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[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 127 points 1 week ago (20 children)
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[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Did no one else read the story? I read it and it sounds moreso the clinic's fault

The necklace he was wearing was a steel weighted exercise band, not a normal necklace. He's not flexing his wealth or anything

His wife told News 12 Long Island in a recorded interview that she was undergoing an MRI on her knee when she asked the technician to get her husband to help her get off the table. She said she called out to him.

Seems like the technician was told by the wife to bring her husband in to help her up. The technician/clinic made a mistake by letting in the husband, who didn't seem properly warned about MRIs no metal policy. The technician also somehow didn't catch the giant "necklace" he'd be wearing.

The "he wasn't supposed to be there" seems like a coverup for their mistake, since how else would he have known to go in? Someone must've told him to walk into the room, it's not like he could hear through the door.

Edit: 100% the technicians fault, the technician saw it. It even had a metal padlock.

They’d even discussed his training and the hard-to-miss chain with the MRI technician during their previous appointments, Jones-McAllister said.
“That was not the first time that guy has seen that chain” on her husband, she said. “They had a conversation about it before.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/long-island-man-killed-in-freak-mri-accident-was-wearing-20-pound-chain-necklace-with-padlock/ar-AA1IXop6

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[–] somewhiteguy@reddthat.com 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

What kind of hospital let him get near the room with that kind of metal around his neck? I've had to be in several hospitals recently for different imaging issues and every time the MRI is a thing I have to remove everything metal to go past a certain door (escorting my daughter and son for medical reasons). I don't know who let him anywhere near the room with something that large.

Edit for Clarity: I've had to be the one removing all metal even though I'm not the one being scanned. For me to progress beyond a certain part of the hospital toward the MRI I needed to get rid of everything. My children were being scanned, not me. So, I'm not sure what hospital system allowed this man with a 9kg chain get this far deep into the imaging area.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 week ago (4 children)

So many dumb ways to die...

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