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Topic: Holy cow!
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Leonard
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posted August 19, 2005 07:58 AM
The most notorious MRI accident was the death of 6-year-old Michael Colombini in 2001 at the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y. He was sedated in a scanner after a brain operation when his oxygen supply failed. An anesthesiologist ran for an oxygen tank and failed to notice that the one he found in the hall outside was made of steel. As he returned, the tank shot out of his hands, hitting Michael in the head.
(unlucky kid)
(dumb Doctor)
(rich lawyer)
Good hunting. LB
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EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All.
Don't piss me off!
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NASA
Knows what it's all about
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posted August 19, 2005 09:36 AM
I heard they tried plastic oxygen tanks once, but they just couldn't hold the pressure.
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2dogs
Knows what it's all about
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posted August 19, 2005 10:07 AM
Good grief! They DO MAKE plastic O2-tubing. Could've left that O2 bottle yrds away.
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BTW, Oxygen doesn't burn. It's an [oxydiser]ie; Increase's burn rate & intensity & can lower ignition temperature.
You wouldn't believe how many [trained-expert]people in the [medical World] think otherwise, go figure...[insert head banging against block-wall...here]
preacher-kirby
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