A WARNING from a team of radiologists comes too late for a six-year-old boy
who was killed by a flying oxygen tank in a hospital this July. He was having a
magnetic resonance scan when the powerful magnets in the room picked up the
stray tank and flung it at his head, fracturing his skull.
Earlier that month Gregory Chaljub and his colleagues at the University of
Texas in Austin published a report looking at five accidents involving gas tanks
between 1985 and 2000, one of which resulted in facial fractures (American
Journal of Roentgenology, vol 177, p 27). The…
