Long Island man, 61, dies after getting sucked into MRI machine while wearing large metal chain

YouGuysAren'tThatSmart · Sunday at 4:52 AM

Otterly said:
They do in the NHS. I’ve had two, and I have to say those tunnels are SMALL. I’m a small person, and they tend to have to raise the bed slider thingy for me. But I’m one of the smaller adults they’d see - so there’s a gap all around me and i still get that little signal from the lizard brain telling me this is a very bad idea. So they must be very claustrophobic and extremely tight for anyone big. I have sympathy with that, if you’re at all claustrophobic MRI is not fun, and I imagine if you’re large, and this lady is, then it’s even worse
That said, I am pretty sure all MRI places are used to people having fear related meltdowns, and being unable to go in. They have very clear signage and waiting areas.
I will bet she had a meltdown and he rushed to help her without thinking. Sometimes people just react.

Annnndd now I have never been happier not being claustrophobic. I'd think I'd only have a full on meltdown if I couldn't move at all like the retards that do cave diving and spelunking. Willfully putting myself in a space where all I could do is go forward and had to crawl backwards if I wanted to go back would be a no bueno for me. My thing was having to stay as still as possible for my ankle both times. At first the set up your foot and your thinking that you can hold it there for hours. Then like 10 minutes later your leg starts feeling all weird from being set up in an awkward angle and shit like that. I can honestly see him jumping into the room after hearing her screaming, which is just tragic to think of.

Otterly · Sunday at 4:58 AM

YouGuysAren'tThatSmart said:
ankle

Yeah, and I don’t think you’re in the machine fully for an ankle scan either. If it’s your head or spine you are right in there.
It’s amazing how uncomfortable a position you felt was comfy when you go in gets isn’t it? Minutes one and two it’s fine then by twenty you feel like it’s terrible

YouGuysAren'tThatSmart · Sunday at 5:19 AM

Otterly said:
Yeah, and I don’t think you’re in the machine fully for an ankle scan either. If it’s your head or spine you are right in there.
It’s amazing how uncomfortable a position you felt was comfy when you go in gets isn’t it? Minutes one and two it’s fine then by twenty you feel like it’s terrible

I wasn't the only time was for my shoulder. They had me in the machine all the way. The other one was for my hand and they had me just lay on my stomach while slightly putting me in the machine. Long time ago so hardly remember. What gets to me is that they'll tell you not to move or you'll have to do the whole thing over again. Nigga what? I don't want to make a day out of this shit!

Flamin Park · Sunday at 5:31 AM

UsedUp said:
My guess is the machine sucked him in and it folded him in half backwards.

I would have figured it broke his neck like a well trained hangman resulting in pretty much instant death. Then I read above he was previously in critical condition

Nasty way to go in that case

frozen_runner · Sunday at 7:37 AM

Skitarii said:
Blacks really are the american equivalent of gypsies, huh?

Honestly, that's insulting to American blacks.

MadStan · Sunday at 7:45 AM

Wheres the video? Kind of like the "Invisible Ghost of Derek Chauvin" got him.

And I gotta laugh at the widow saying "I'm trying to wrap my head around the whole thing" is just pure gold.

Dawdler · Sunday at 8:00 AM

I never imagined border checks could be simply done by very powerful magnets

indomitable snowman · Sunday at 8:55 AM

MadStan said:
And I gotta laugh at the widow saying "I'm trying to wrap my head around the whole thing" is just pure gold.

Unlike his chain.

DeadwastePrime · Sunday at 1:40 PM

didnt even die like that one dude in the new final destination movie

whoishomermynameis · Sunday at 1:47 PM

not william stenchever · Sunday at 2:10 PM

YouGuysAren'tThatSmart said:
Annnndd now I have never been happier not being claustrophobic. I'd think I'd only have a full on meltdown if I couldn't move at all like the retards that do cave diving and spelunking. Willfully putting myself in a space where all I could do is go forward and had to crawl backwards if I wanted to go back would be a no bueno for me

I think a lot of people are conditionally claustrophobic like that. I know I am. Some tight spaces are far sketchier than others. A crawl space under a house? A pain in the ass to move around or work in but it'll only cause me physical stress and not mental. But hardcore spelunking? I don't understand how people do that.

JosephStalin · Sunday at 3:16 PM

robobobo said:
No. Gold gives zero fucks about magnets. Only iron and a couple of other metals react to a magnetic field, so any solid gold jewelry would be completely unaffected. Gold alloys like "white gold" may have sufficient nickel in them to be affected by an MRI, but I expect the result would be too weak to cause much of a problem. It definitely wouldn't pull you into the machine and kill you. Even most shitty gold plated jewelry is on a core of copper or silver, I'm not aware of any gold jewelry that uses iron.
It's a moot point given that apparently the guy was wearing a twenty-pound weightlifting chain for some inconceivable reason, but unless a gold chain was astoundingly fake, like a Chinese bike chain with gold spray paint on it, it shouldn't react to an MRI. I'd still take it off just to be on the safe side, though.

My wedding ring is made of white gold and have never had to remove it for any MRI. Titanium is no problem at all, either. Not sure what metal the pacemakers are made of but there was no problem once they were set at the heart rate needed for the MRI.

robobobo · Sunday at 3:26 PM

JosephStalin said:
My wedding ring is made of white gold and have never had to remove it for any MRI. Titanium is no problem at all, either. Not sure what metal the pacemakers are made of but there was no problem once they were set at the heart rate needed for the MRI.

Yeah, obviously they aren't going to implant anything magnetic in a person in this day and age, that would be insane. I've got a permanent set of staples inside me from surgery, they assured me that they won't be setting off any metal detectors or causing MRI issues. The white gold I was iffy about, since it's usually a nickel alloy and nickel is affected by magnetic fields, but I guess the percentage must be too low if you've worn it in a machine and didn't notice anything.

CharlesBarkley · Sunday at 3:36 PM

Imagine not paying extra for the solid gold dildo to go in your ass before the MRI scan smh

Kuritan Deplorable · Sunday at 3:50 PM

Flamin Park said:
I would have figured it broke his neck like a well trained hangman resulting in pretty much instant death. Then I read above he was previously in critical condition

Nasty way to go in that case

I thought that unless the injuries are obviously incompatible with life, like "His head popped off completely", they don't tend to declare death right away - Dude was probably dead in all the ways that mattered, but the heart hadn't stopped beating so on paper, he still had vitals regardless of how fucky they might have been. But if there's any situation in which you could survive an internal decapitation injury, its probably one where you're already inside of the hospital.

That said, I don't feel any remorse for the guy. Even if she was screaming bloody murder, running into the "Metal in this place will kill you" room wearing metal is the definition of asking for it. I feel worse for the hospital and everyone else. Depending on the machine, that could be a multi-million dollar piece of equipment completely scrapped, that can't be easily or quickly replaced, that's essential for many kinds of modern treatments. Dude darwin'd himself and now everyone else gets to deal with the consequences.

not william stenchever · Sunday at 4:07 PM

robobobo said:
The white gold I was iffy about, since it's usually a nickel alloy and nickel is affected by magnetic fields, but I guess the percentage must be too low if you've worn it in a machine and didn't notice anything.

I'm not sure how it works exactly but I think that ferrous magnetic stuff is related to how the molecules are aligned in an alloy. For example, stainless steel is non magnetic despite being mostly iron by weight. Rust is also not magnetic. It's probably similar in white gold where the non-ferrous material is preventing the nickel from being aligned in a way that would make the alloy magnetically active.

Thomas Talus · Sunday at 4:15 PM

Peaches the Wonder Cat said:
There are a ton of stories about this kind of shit.

https://www.iflscience.com/this-is-why-you-should-never-wear-a-metal-butt-plug-in-an-mri-machine-68886

I thought anyone wearing a buttplug would welcome an "anal rail gun."

Sparkling, the shiny lights awake true desire
Only my railgun can shoot it kanarazu
Tsuranuiteku tomadou koto naku
Kizutsuite mo hashiri tsuzukeru

Translation:

Sparkling, the shiny lights awaken my true desire
Only my Railgun can shoot it definitely
It penetrates without any hesitation
And runs on when my body gets injured

JosephStalin · Sunday at 5:46 PM

robobobo said:
Yeah, obviously they aren't going to implant anything magnetic in a person in this day and age, that would be insane. I've got a permanent set of staples inside me from surgery, they assured me that they won't be setting off any metal detectors or causing MRI issues. The white gold I was iffy about, since it's usually a nickel alloy and nickel is affected by magnetic fields, but I guess the percentage must be too low if you've worn it in a machine and didn't notice anything.

One thing about pacemakers and MRIs, least in my case. Before the MRI had to sit in a wooden chair. Tech from the pacemaker doctor's office was at the hospital. She put on leads and remotely ramped up pacemakers to 80 beats per minute for the MRI, which was with contrast. Use the new-style leadless pacemakers, screwed directly into the upper and lower chambers. After the procedure sat back down in the wooden chair and the lady returned pacemakers to normal settings for me, told me percentage of use and expected remaining battery life. Went to pacemaker cardiologist this past Friday. Same lady hooked me up, checked pacemakers, printed everything out, said all good. Nurse practitioner looked at printout, said all good, come back in six months. I left and went to Costco.

Lady Bizness · Sunday at 6:19 PM

A relative of mine was a radiology tech at a teaching hospital. Let's just be glad he was there to give everyone a hard time so that when there was a real patient in there no one's pocket full of hypodermic needles went flying...
...why anyone would have a pocket full of hypodermic needles in the first place is another question.
With people like him long since retired I am really concerned about the competency crisis.

gampboonerisms · Sunday at 6:37 PM

fake ass nigga wearing fake ass chains lololol

Long Island man, 61, dies after getting sucked into MRI machine while wearing large metal chain