Yearly MRI Safety

[jedimaster91]

I think it broke my brain.

In case you don't know, MRI stands for Magnetic Resonance Imaging. So one might possibly assume the machine is a giant magnet. One might also assume taking magnetic objects into a room with a giant magnet might be a Very Bad Idea. And yet every year <hospital> requires us to watch a video (that lasts 12 minutes and 40 seconds) featuring several idiot actors who did exactly what they shouldn't have done: take heavy, magnetic objects within range of the Giant Freaking Magnet.

I know <hospital> has to require such "training" for legal purposes. But I don't appreciate being talked to like I'm a moron. Really all the training has to consist of is:

• Machine is a Giant Freaking Magnet
• Giant Freaking Magnet is ALWAYS on
• DO NOT take magnetic objects into room with Giant Freaking Magnet

Simple, no? That does not take 12:40 of patronizing to get across (although watching a pipe wrench disintegrate a brick was pretty cool. They can leave that in there).

And for what it's worth, since I'm not an MRI tech, I stay out of MRI altogether. In fact, I make it a point to stay out of other modalities' areas unless I'm asked for lift help or something. And pretty much everyone stays out of Nuc Med. Amazing what radiation warning signs will do.

[Kazim]

I might add that the Giant Freaking Magnet also makes a large amount of noise.
I know firsthand what it's like to be in one of those things...it annoys me :P

[Andara Bledin]

Most safety videos are incredibly poorly made.

Patronizing, badly acted, and with often ridiculous scenarios. It's bad when you ignore the message and focus on critiquing the messengers. >_<

But the pipe wrench brick disintegration does sound pretty awesome.

^-.-^

[jedimaster91]

Eh, it's not so much ignoring the message but rather "I got it already. Can we move on now?"

The brick thing was pretty cool. They put up a board with a shelf in front of the tube and sat a brick on it. Then they tossed a pipe wrench into the magnetic field to demonstrate the power of the magnet. The brick went away.

Now imagine that's someone's head and it's a bit horrifying.

[suburbandecay]

Ahh yes, the incredibly old and awful "training" videos.... FedEx had several that I got to watch every year. I think the greatest one was the "Drugs/Weapons in the work place" video. In one memorable scene, someone asks a woman if she would like to be escorted to her car since her ex-husband has been threatening her and she replies, "there's no need, I have this". she then proceeds to pull a snub nosed hand cannon from her purse. Afterwords, two employees get together and deadpan "I think we should tell a manager" or something along those lines. The whole video is awful and over the top in that same vein and it carries on for a good ten minutes.

[Andara Bledin]

Here's a bit of fun with an MRI and ferromagnetic items. One of the comments is that they'd love to see the vid in safety training as opposed to the drek that normally shows up.

^-.-^

[LadyAndreca]

I had one in a college chem class where the actor had to really dig a broken test tube into the fake hand to pop the bag of fake blood. Seriously, he ground the thing into his "hand" for about five seconds.

Weirder was later in the video where they were demonstrating the safety showers. The 'assisting' actor could NOT stop ogling the 'hurt' actor. One of the guys in the class even commented that he'd rather get acid burns than have another guy stare at him like that.

Alas, the only interesting thing that ever happened in the labs (that we didn't do on purpose) was when we had a suspected hydrogen leak during an experiment. I was the TA on that one.

Me: KILL IT!
Them: We did!
*report to senior TA*
Him: KILL IT!
Us: We did!
*report to professor*
Him: KILL IT!
Us: We did!

[RayvenQ]

Most safety videos are incredibly poorly made.

Patronizing, badly acted, and with often ridiculous scenarios. It's bad when you ignore the message and focus on critiquing the messengers. >_<

But the pipe wrench brick disintegration does sound pretty awesome.

^-.-^

Poorly made?! Klauss would like to have a word with you. (Warning, Ridiculous amount of gore xD)

[trailerparkmedic]

(although watching a pipe wrench disintegrate a brick was pretty cool. They can leave that in there)

I wanna see that!

Seriously, unless everyone who goes to MRI has to watch it, that's dumb. Do the ICU nurses need to watch it? Respiratory? Transporters? Every ICU patient I've taken to MRI (or CT, or the cath lab, or....) has a gaggle of escorts, who all are smart enough to start dumping their pockets as soon as they arrive.

[jedimaster91]

It's on the list of yearly modules the entire organization has to do. Along with Contact/Droplet/Airborne precautions, disease transmission, chain of command, and other stuff I can't remember.

Here's a bit of fun with an MRI and ferromagnetic items. One of the comments is that they'd love to see the vid in safety training as opposed to the drek that normally shows up.

^-.-^

WIN! I'd so much rather see that kind of training video. Heck, I'd like to film that kind of training video. The results are so much more spectacular than radiation.

[fireheart]

Out of all the crappy training videos I had to watch, the WORST one hands down was called "Between The Flags." Basically it was referring to some aspect of business and ensuring that what we were doing was nice and legal and SAFE. The whole video was mostly a competition between staff trying to best show how this was possible.

[Argus]

At one job, we had some online safety training classes. They consisted of video clips, exposition, and multiple choice questions. Sometimes, I would imagine questions for a parody of the class:

"Which of the following is the most appropriate reaction if you see a fire in the workplace?
A) Run in circles, scream, and shout.
B) Call your stockbroker and short-sell the company's stock
C) The first one out of a room should lock the door and barricade it
D) Call your manager and leave a voice mail"

[AccountingDrone]

I wanna see that!

Seriously, unless everyone who goes to MRI has to watch it, that's dumb. Do the ICU nurses need to watch it? Respiratory? Transporters? Every ICU patient I've taken to MRI (or CT, or the cath lab, or....) has a gaggle of escorts, who all are smart enough to start dumping their pockets as soon as they arrive.

Hell, I have had so many damned medical procedures done in my life, I wear clothing with no metal in it to any random doctors appointment. Counting up, I have had around 14 MRIs, 7 CT scans, 11 IVPs, several hundred assorted xrays ... and 2 rounds of chemo ...

I kan haz new body?

[Seshat]

Hell, I have had so many damned medical procedures done in my life, I wear clothing with no metal in it to any random doctors appointment.

I'd need to have the metal body jewelry (IUD) removed.

[NateTheChops]

I think it broke my brain.

I know <hospital> has to require such "training" for legal purposes. But I don't appreciate being talked to like I'm a moron.

I understand where you're coming from. But what you're basically suffering for is the countless other people who commited an epic boss level fuck up which either:

A: Cost lots of money.

B: Slowed productivity down.

C: Seriously injured and/or Killed someone.

It's the reason why all airport employees are basically treated like first graders when they're trained about airport security and about how to open the plane doors so as not to inflate the emergency slide.

What it comes down to is: If they explain it like everyone is the reigning expert you get more fuck ups. If they explain it to everyone like they're idiots, then it's even harder to understand when someone fucks up what any idiot could have understood.