SHOT IN THE BUTT

[jeffrefrig]

I'm no mechanic, but that looks like a piston & rod thing for a car engine, with the 1911 pointing out the front.
If I were a nurse just starting my career I would try for an ER appointment and start a journal of all the weird things people accidentally fall down onto and....that's enough.

 

[Hair Trigger]

So how does a "magnetic field" make a gun discharge?

Even if there isn't a discharge (or even a firearm), there's danger from large steel objects being thrown into patients or technical personnel. MRIs are no joke.

Here's a video showing the strength of the magnetic field in a MRI scanner. The title says "4 Tesla", which is pretty strong, most scanners are 3-5 Tesla, which is a measure of the field strength, which translates to increased resolution of the image as the rating increases.

Even non-ferrous metals are affected by the field, even if they have no magnetic attraction. They will begin to heat up in the magnetic field, to the point they can damage tissue. This is another reason that patients with implants can't go into the scanner. A metal such as titanium won't get pulled in, but it will get hot.

Magnetic fields work on the inverse square law, meaning the field strength increases exponentially the closer you get to the magnet.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BBx8BwLhqg[/ame]

 

[Maddog 521]

Wow
I'm scheduled for a MRI today
Scary stuff for sure

 

[Rotorhead1026]

I have a titanium lower back. It hasn't been an issue with MRIs, but the techs know about it in advance.

 

[Delta Expatriate]

I would like to know more about this case. Patients are usually gowned for an MRI. No ferrous metals in the room at all. That includes any clothing with such metal fasteners as snaps, hooks, zippers and etc. Jewelry of any type is a big no no. Even some surgical implants are not allowed. People have been seriously injured or killed by objects flying into the magnet thus the strict protocols.
I suspect the tech may have been fired for this. Musta been one heck of a good concealed carry system.

John

I have had three MRIs this calendar year, the last one just around a month ago. I was not "gowned" for it, and I don't specifically remember about the other two, earlier in the year. I was required to empty my pockets - no keys, change, etc., and no cell phone. I was also required to remove my belt with its brass buckle, but was told not to worry about the metal "snap" and zipper on my pants. I find it incredible that someone would have a gun on during an MRI. The last facility in which I had an MRI did have a sign prohibiting firearms.

 

[Beemerguy53]

I've had more MRIs than I can remember over the years, due to my various medical adventures. Every single time, I've had to affirm that I have no hidden piercings, that my pockets are empty, that I have no implants, etc. I can't imagine how anyone could carry a gun into that machine. Even more to the point, why would you feel the need to be armed during an MRI?

(Or...perhaps this patient was one of those people who has the "nobody's telling ME what to do!" attitude...or perhaps she wasn't going to let the hospital "control" her by denying her her 2nd Amendment rights... )

 

[Rule3]

How can this be? Every MRI I have had I was in one of those hospital gowns. Can't even hid you butt in one of those??

 

[DWalt]

The only 2 times I was ever in one of those machines, they made me strip to my underwear and put on a robe. Wonder where her hiding place is/was.

That has been my experience also.

 

[NYlakesider]

Years ago I had a metal shaving in my eye. Had to get it scooped out of my eye once it started rusting.

Years later needing a MRI I had to get ex rays of my eyes showing I had no metal before they would perform the MRI.

They said just a small shaving could potentially get pulled through my eye blinding me or even death if it nicked something.

Years back I had to do a MRI and my doctor knew I was a welder. He asked me a couple times is their any chance you have shards of metal in bedded in your body some where. Now I have dug much out over the years and did not think I was carring metal.

He notified the MRI outfit and they made me do a Xray type procedure all over my body. I was told if I had any metal the Xray would heat it up and I could then see about getting it removed and reschedule the MRI. All went OK.

 

[CalifEd]

In addition to the naked parade, I was asked if I had any permanent makeup or tattoo's.
Seems that some of the older/DIY ink can be made with a ferric base.

 

[boykinlp]

I have had quite a number of these over the years. I am usually where sweat pants or shorts and a T-shirt. A couple of questions. First, I wonder why we can't hear it? It makes quite a loud noise! Second, knowing the cost of one of these things, I can't imagine throwing metal objects into it!
Larry

 

[dmar]

I'm no mechanic, but that looks like a piston & rod thing for a car engine, with the 1911 pointing out the front.
If I were a nurse just starting my career I would try for an ER appointment and start a journal of all the weird things people accidentally fall down onto and....that's enough.

I have a friend that's a nurse, and years ago she showed me an x ray image from an Amish guy that had come into the emergency room after a workplace accident. He fell off a barn that he was building. The image showed the handle of a sledgehammer that went between his legs, right up his God-given exit hole and up into his body cavity! Pretty gross/awful… The guy lived.

Wearing a gun to an MRI is definitely a IQ test that she failed.

 

[Dave.357]

What is that object?

I once had a T-handle spark plug wrench Butt
I think that may be another type of plug.
Wrench?

 

[Golddollar]

I have a friend that's a nurse, and years ago she showed me an x ray image from an Amish guy that had come into the emergency room after a workplace accident. He fell off a barn that he was building. The image showed the handle of a sledgehammer that went between his legs, right up his God-given exit hole and up into his body cavity! Pretty gross/awful… The guy lived.

Just reading that hurts!