Today's MRI health tip.
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Man dies after he’s shot by his own gun that was triggered by MRI machine,
A Brazilian lawyer and gun advocate has reportedly died after being shot by his own gun he brought into an MRI room.
Leandro Mathias de Novaes, 40, accompanied his mother to a São Paulo, Brazil, diagnostic center for an MRI scan on Jan. 18, according to CNN Brazil.
Medical staff asked Novaes and his mother to remove all metal from their bodies, CNN reported, as is protocol when entering an MRI room because of the machine’s strong magnetic pull.
Novaes did not disclose that he was carrying a concealed weapon, and when the machine began to run, the gun was pulled out of his waistband, causing it to fire into his stomach, Jam Press reports in The New York Post.
He was rushed to the São Luiz Morumbi Hospital, where he died Feb. 6, according to CNN.
Laboratorio Cura, the location of the shooting, told Jam Press that it had followed protocol to prevent accidents in their facility.
“Both the patient and his companion were properly instructed regarding the procedures for accessing the examination room and warned about the removal of any and all metallic objects,” the lab said in a statement.
But despite warnings, the lab told Jam Press “the firearm was not mentioned by the companion, who entered the examination room with the object by his decision.”
