To the Editor: In July, a six-year-old child undergoing magneticresonance imaging (MRI) in New York suffered a skull fractureand intracranial hemorrhage after an oxygen tank that had beenbrought into the room was pulled into the machine at high speed.He died two days later.1
Undetected or misplaced metal objects have caused numerous injuriesduring MRI. Twenty-four of 46 MRI facilities responding to asurvey in 1999 (52 percent) reported the occurrence of MRI-relatedaccidents.2 Large objects involved in such incidents includedan intravenous-drug pole, a toolbox, a sandbag containing metalfilings, a vacuum cleaner, mop buckets, a . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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