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To: KLP who wrote (63640)	8/24/2004 6:25:56 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) of 793845

could he have an MRI? WARNING: An MRI is a really, really a bad idea if you have a piece of steel inside you!!! MRI death may be a first, but accidents on rise s-t.com Deaths have been reported before when the MRI machine's magnetic power disrupted metal aneurysm clips or cardiac pacemakers inside patients' bodies. At least once, a patient was blinded when a piece of metal, long embedded in his eye, moved in response to the machine. Standard regulations to prevent accidents are strict. Operators insist that magnetic objects be kept out of the MRI room. Pockets are emptied; watches, earrings and eyeglasses are removed; patients are stripped and quizzed about implants, shrapnel and bullets in their bodies. Some patients are deemed ineligible for MRI. Note: Recently a local guy got a chest xray and they found an entire bullet inside him. Turns out he'd gotten it in Vietnam and they had somehow overlooked it. Kerry could have a small piece of overlooked shrapnel that wasn't noticed until a later xray. But given the Cambodia story, you gotta wonder. -Snow

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