"The man entered a room at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, on New York's Long Island, without permission as the MRI machine was running..."
People think they can do anything they want nowadays.
People think they can do anything they want nowadays.
The same questions are being asked: how come anyone can enter a NICU? How could the parents let an unsupervised child roam the hospital? How come no one intervened? The worst part is that other parents had complained about the unsupervised child the day before.
Failures all along... that's often how accidents happen.
Freak accidents will always happen, and if mitigation is simple and cheap, we should do it. But as soon as we get into the territory of "NICU doors need to be locked with keycard access" (causing every doctor and nurse to do a badge scan 40-50 times a day) then I think it's ok to have 1 infant death every 50 years globally because of it.
Yeah, sometimes enough fractional close calls add up (usually to a big lawsuit) and policy changes without and death, but don't bet on it.
But, on the other end of the spectrum, having all sorts of absurd policy and procedure because someone might die so incredibly rarely we can't quantify it is terrible too.
The magnet is always on. His wife was in the room. Unless you're previously aware of the dangers of an MRI machine it looks like any other exam room with some equipment in it. It's up to the staff to inform and keep people out and enforce that. IMHO he should not have even been in the outer room wearing a chain like that.
> Melonie Longacre, VP of Operations at Northwell Health, explained MRI safety protocols, emphasizing the importance of multizone procedures to ensure safety around the powerful magnet.
> "Zone I is just for awareness that there’s an MRI in the vicinity, Zone II is the patient screening zone where they get screened. Zone III is the post-screening zone, and Zone IV is the actual magnet room," she said. "It’s important to be educated and safe."
It's unclear if Nassau Open MRI (where this incident took place) had similar safety protocols. I'm guessing not.
[1]: https://www.fox5ny.com/news/long-island-mri-freak-accident
Step 2: Lock metallic decapitation device in place.
big fat metal chain + big fat powerful magnet = disaster.
In fact, whenever I hear MRI I instantly think dental fillings. You’d think the patients and their handlers would instinctively think about all the metal they carry. How could big fat metal chain on neck not come to mind?