By Catherine Davis | January 30, 2018
Commentator, Chief Editor, L&SS
This terrible tragedy isn't as uncommon as you would think - not even here in the US. United States: While there aren't hundreds or thousands of deaths each year, there are way to many deaths period. Internationally, I didn't find any online data to support a large number of MRI accidental deaths.
Still, the number of deaths associated with MRI machines is not what those in charge of safety should be focusing all their energy on. They should be working on ways to stop deaths altogether.
I found a web page (it is a bit dated but the info is current) dedicated to MRI room safety. The author, "Tobias Gilk, Rresident & MRI Safety Director Mednovus, Inc., discusses safety precautions that should be in affect at all times in environments such as MRI facilities.
Read some of what he had to say about this,
The magnets don’t take vacations. They’re not on just when ‘taking the picture’. They’re not turned off for the night when the last patient is done for the day. The risks are omnipresent, which demands that we are equally vigilant...
Personal computers, iPods, filing cabinets, desk chairs, anesthesia machines, cribs, gurneys, wheelchairs, dollies, staplers, power tools, axes, roller skates, ‘sand’ bags, hampers, mop-buckets, and the list goes on, and on, and on… All of these, and many, many more objects have found their way into MRI scanner rooms.
In America, a six-year-old little boy was killed while receiving an MRI. Here are his details,
Boy, 6, Killed in Freak MRI Accident. A 6-year-old boy died after undergoing an MRI exam at a New York-area hospital when the machine's powerful magnetic field jerked a metal oxygen tank across the room, crushing the child's head.
Boy, 6, Killed in Freak MRI Accident - ABC News abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92745&page=1
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