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From: Yahoo!News / Miami Herald
Woman shot in the buttock when MRI machine triggers her concealed gun, FDA reports
Irene Wright
Thu, December 14, 2023 at 11:09 AM CST ...
A medical equipment manufacturer (GE Medical Systems) is investigating after a patient was shot by her own gun triggered by an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machine, according to a Food and Drug Administration report. ...
The 57-year-old patient was asked screening questions to see if she had any forbidden, potentially magnetic objects on her person, to which she answered “no,” the report said.
As she went to lie down in the bore, or circular opening of the machine, a shot rang out, the report said. ...
The magnetism of the machine triggered the gun to fire a single shot, hitting the woman in the right buttock, the report said.
“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 said. ...
In February, a Brazilian lawyer and gun advocate was accompanying his mother while she underwent an MRI scan in São Paulo, McClatchy News reported.
He was carrying a weapon in his waistband that was then pulled out by the magnetism of the machine and triggered, the bullet hitting him in the stomach, Jam Press reported in The New York Post. ...
In another case in 2018, a man in India was killed when an oxygen tank he was holding next to an MRI machine was pulled toward the magnet and broke open, flooding his lungs, the Indian Express reported. ...
