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health advisory Hospital Health advisory 2007-11-16 5:21:00

My son recently had an MRI scan and I was allowed to stay in the room when he was having it done. Before I was allowed in I had remove loose change from my pockets, my wallet (I understand that one as the credit cards can be wiped) and any other metal items (including my belt). When I was in the room though I noticed that it is just a normal hospital room, full of metal object (from the suspended ceiling down to the door handles)...so with all this metal in the room already, why did I have to leave metal objects outside the room?

Answer:

A boy was killed while having an MRI because an oxygen tank was left unsecured and it was sucked into the MRI and it struck the boy. The staff takes every precaution to ensure the safety of everyone. The metal already in the room is secured.

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Not all metal is attracted by magnets. MRI rooms need to be built using metal because its strong but will be with items that are not attracted by the MRI machine as it produces an extremely large force of magnetism the rooms are specially built for that purpose.

Since MRI is Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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MRI -Magnetic Resonance Imaging

metal is attracted to the magnet

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the mri is an encredibly large and strong magnet that will rip out most any magnetized metal. though not all metal will attract to a magnet there is still the others one taht will and will hurt you pretty bad, especially if you have a defibulater in or any other kind of mettalic objects placed in you :)

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Benign,