A man has been tragically killed in an MRI accident after a doctor allegedly forgot to tell him to remove one item.
Kevin McAllister lost his life on July 16 after the incident took place at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, New York.
Since then, his wife Adrienne Jones-McAllister, who was by her husband’s side at the time, has spoken out to recall the harrowing moment ‘he went limp in my arms’.
Speaking to New 12 Long Island, she shared that the tragic events are ‘still pulsating in my brain’.
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The accident occurred during a visit to the hospital where Adrienne was due to undergo an MRI on her knee.
However, Kevin suffered a ‘medical episode’ and police were called when he was caught in the machine.
According to a statement by Nassau County Police Department (NCPD), the victim was wearing ‘a large metallic chain around his neck causing him to be drawn into the machine’.
They went on to state that the man’s entry into the room was not authorized ‘while the scan was in progress’.
Sadly, two days later, it was reported that he had ‘succumbed to his injuries and was declared deceased by a hospital physician’.
According to his wife, Kevin had suffered several heart attacks after the incident.
She told the outlet she ‘saw the machine snatch him’ and ‘pull him’ in, after he was let into the MRI room.
Recalling the incident, she explained how after her MRI on her knee, she asked the technician to bring her husband to the room to help her get up.
She shared that he was then let into the room, even though he was wearing a 20 lb chain necklace that he wore for weight training purposes.
“In that instant, the machine switched him around, pulled him in, and he hit the MRI,” she said.
He was stuck on the machine, which uses extremely powerful magnets to scan the body for ailments and ‘non-bony parts or soft tissue’, as per the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
This is when Adrienne explained that she and the technician tried to pull her husband off of the machine, but they couldn’t set him free.
At the time, she said she was calling for help, stating: “I was saying, ‘Could you turn off the machine? Call 911. Do something. Turn this damn thing off!’”
As per the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, patients are asked to remove metal and electrical objects before an MRI.
Since his tragic death, Adrienne admitted to suffering with her sleep, stating: “I haven’t been able to sleep, I’m barely eating, I just can’t believe [it].
“I’m still trying to wrap my head around the whole thing. He waved goodbye to me, and his whole body went limp.”
According to the NCPD, an investigation is underway.