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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 23:06:30 JST Rich Felker

   • Hannu Ikonen MD

   @hannu_ikonen Absolutely this, but also: patients should not be blamed for MRI tragedies, even when they disregarded instructions. There is no reason the machines cannot be made to safely detect dangerously large ferromagnetic material presence and refuse to operate except for corporate greed.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 00:27:07 JST Rich Felker

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     • Matthew Loxton
     • Hannu Ikonen MD

     @mloxton @hannu_ikonen The latter. AIUI it would just be ramping up power gradually and detecting unexpectedly large responses at low power.

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     Matthew Loxton (mloxton@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 00:27:08 JST Matthew Loxton

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     • Hannu Ikonen MD

     @dalias
     Are you thinking a checklist procedure, or having a detector interlock in the MRI machine that prevents coil activation in the presence of ferrous objects?

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