WAUKESHA, WI - Records with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) show that back in June 2023 an unidentified woman was shot in the buttocks after reportedly taking a loaded firearm with her into an MRI machine.
According to the New York Post, the woman, who is 57-years-old, brought the concealed weapon with her into the room and when the machine's powerful magnets were engaged, the metal trigger tripped the gun discharged.
The gun fired a single shot, which hit her right in the right buttock. A Use of Device Problem report submitted by the woman's insurance company to the FDA read, in part, "Patient received a gunshot wound in the right buttock area. The patient was examined by a physician at the site who described the entry and exit holes as very small and superficial, only penetrating subcutaneous tissue."
The report noted that after getting shot in the butt, the woman was hospitalized and her wounds were treated. The woman made a full recovery.
The report also noted that it is unclear how the 57-year-old woman was able to bring a gun into the MRI room as she underwent a routine screening for metal objects and said she had none on her before entering. The Post stated that even with precautions, accidents caused by MRI machines are not completely unheard of.
In October 2023, a nurse at a San Francisco hospital reportedly suffered crushing injuries after she became trapped between an MRI machine and a hospital bed violently drawn into the machine. The nurse, Ainah Cervantes, had to have surgery afterwards.
She was tending to a patient on a bed at the time. The patient fell from the bed and was uninjured, but Cervantes became sandwiched between the front of the tube-shaped machine and the bed.
When speaking with investigators, she said, "I was getting pushed by the bed. Basically, I was running backwards. If I didn't run, the bed would smash me underneath." She endured a severe laceration that required surgery, which included the removal of two embedded screws.
Tobias Gilk, an MRI expert, said that the machines do nots top being magnetically attracted once they attach to an object. He said, "It keeps pulling and pulling and pulling, squeezing to try to get the magnetically attracted object closer to, in contact with the MRI scanner itself."
He estimates that thousands of incidents go unreported every year, adding, "Personally, I find it very frustrating. We know MRI accidents can happen when best practices aren't followed."
KIRO 7 reported that a man in Brazil had his gun grabbed by the MRI magnet. It discharged and the bullet struck him in the abdomen. The man later died from those injuries.
According to the New York Post, the woman, who is 57-years-old, brought the concealed weapon with her into the room and when the machine's powerful magnets were engaged, the metal trigger tripped the gun discharged.
The gun fired a single shot, which hit her right in the right buttock. A Use of Device Problem report submitted by the woman's insurance company to the FDA read, in part, "Patient received a gunshot wound in the right buttock area. The patient was examined by a physician at the site who described the entry and exit holes as very small and superficial, only penetrating subcutaneous tissue."
The report noted that after getting shot in the butt, the woman was hospitalized and her wounds were treated. The woman made a full recovery.
The report also noted that it is unclear how the 57-year-old woman was able to bring a gun into the MRI room as she underwent a routine screening for metal objects and said she had none on her before entering. The Post stated that even with precautions, accidents caused by MRI machines are not completely unheard of.
In October 2023, a nurse at a San Francisco hospital reportedly suffered crushing injuries after she became trapped between an MRI machine and a hospital bed violently drawn into the machine. The nurse, Ainah Cervantes, had to have surgery afterwards.
She was tending to a patient on a bed at the time. The patient fell from the bed and was uninjured, but Cervantes became sandwiched between the front of the tube-shaped machine and the bed.
When speaking with investigators, she said, "I was getting pushed by the bed. Basically, I was running backwards. If I didn't run, the bed would smash me underneath." She endured a severe laceration that required surgery, which included the removal of two embedded screws.
Tobias Gilk, an MRI expert, said that the machines do nots top being magnetically attracted once they attach to an object. He said, "It keeps pulling and pulling and pulling, squeezing to try to get the magnetically attracted object closer to, in contact with the MRI scanner itself."
He estimates that thousands of incidents go unreported every year, adding, "Personally, I find it very frustrating. We know MRI accidents can happen when best practices aren't followed."
KIRO 7 reported that a man in Brazil had his gun grabbed by the MRI magnet. It discharged and the bullet struck him in the abdomen. The man later died from those injuries.
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