Who says being confined in a loud tight metal tube can’t be explosive?
An unidentified Wisconsin woman was left with an additional pair of holes in her back after she took a loaded gun into an MRI machine during a doctor’s visit in June, according to Food and Drug Administration records.
The 57-year-old hid the gun on his body as he slipped into the MRI hole, but when the machine’s powerful magnet was attached, the metal trigger tripped and the gun went off.
“The patient received a gunshot wound to the right buttock,” a Problem Use Device report submitted by the woman’s insurance company to the FDA in July read.
“The patient was examined by a doctor on site who described the entry and exit holes as very small and shallow, only penetrating the subcutaneous tissue.”
After being shot in the back, the woman was hospitalized and treated for her wounds. He continues to make a full recovery, the report said.
It is not clear how the woman was able to bring a weapon into the MRI room. He underwent a routine screening for metal objects and said he was not wearing them before entering, the report said.
The extremely strong magnets used in MRI machines have been known to cause accidents to patients and hospital staff. Getty Images
An MRI — a magnetic resonance imaging machine — uses a magnetic field produced by a very powerful magnet to create images of the inside of the human body. Their magnets are so strong that patients are required to remove all metal from their bodies, and every item that enters the machine room is carefully monitored to keep ordinary objects from becoming dangerous projectiles.
Despite the precautions, accidents caused by MRI machines are not unheard of.
As recently as October, a nurse at a San Francisco hospital suffered crushing injuries after she was caught between an MRI and a hospital bed and violently pulled into the machine.
In January, a Brazilian lawyer was killed in a São Paulo hospital after the gun he was carrying in his waistband was ripped from his pants and fired into his stomach.
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