For those that work in the medical field...

Wouldn't it be ok since stainless steel is non-ferrous?

 

I'm not in the medical field, but I'd imagine it's standard practice to check the entire body for any kind of piercing, since they're not uncommon nowadays. This would expose any kind of cage you'd possibly be wearing, as well as all your nipple piercings.

 

24 years in hospitals...first thing they do in the ER would be to strip you...they will find it and ruin your favorite panties your wearing over it by cutting them off(normal practice)

 

From what I remember they put you in a hospital gown, so I would imagine they would find it pretty quick.

 

I am sure they’d check your genitals for piercings.

My 316 stainless steel is non-ferrous. I tested my MaleChastityNow cage with a 1.3T permanent magnet I just got. The lack of magnetic attraction explains why I keep sailing through security metal detectors.

But MRI’s are 1.5T (some are 3T). I wouldn’t wear one. I actually have some metal (iron?) in my body from an old injury. They detected it and had to adjust. The MRI tech was annoyed I forgot about it during my interview. It slowed them down. But I was conscious and could answer. There might be a protocol...

I guess you made a case for wearing an emergency key, and a funny embarrassing dog tag marking you as a caged-male. Otherwise they wouldn’t find the emergency key and cut you out of the cage.

Or just send you in for a CT scan, ultrasound, or XRay instead if those provided alternate diagnostic value.

This sounds like a good question on Quora or Reddit in a medical area. I’m interested in the answers here but I’m guessing a different forum might get your answer. Try finding an answer just about body jewelry. Or implants if you’re not carrying a card.

 

@Peter Rabbit has it: 316L is non-ferrous, but a lot of other "stainless" steel - 304 is the common one - *is* ferrous, and it's easy to check that with a magnet of reasonable strength.

The man to speak with is Barry at Anatometal: he knows his metallurgy.

 

Risk is very low. A situation where you are unconscious is more likely to lead to a CT scan anyway. Lots of safety checks are done before an MRI, especially if you are unconscious , at which point you would have been stripped down anyway.

 

I found this article interesting.

https://bodyartforms.com/blog/piercings-and-the-mri.asp

I was not wanded down myself for my MRIs. I wonder what the sensitivity of those are.

I didn’t realize that silicone and glass can interfere with the imaging.

 

I don’t know about stainless, but I was directed to remove my gold wedding ring before a MRI. So it appears all metal must be removed.

If I was in an emergency situation needing a MRI, and locked, I wouldn’t care too much about what they did...

 

Rather than the MRI staff debate the relative magnetic characteristics of every possible metal and alloy, (and how would they know if your "gold ring" is actually a cheap alloy fake) it's very likely that a safer, simpler and easier to implement rule of "no metals" is observed.

 

I agree. That BodyArtForms article above backs your statement up.

 

It is unlikely you will be in an MRI machine at all if you are unconscious. It would be rare, and they would likely check you.

Either that or you'll be stuck to the MRI by your junk which would be disturbingly hysterical.

 

Here’s a relevant quote:

“The most common fear someone has when approaching the MRI with piercings is having the piercings magnetically removed in a painful way, but a far lesser known and much more common issue is called thermal heating. Like tin foil in a microwave, metal can resonate with the waves in the MRI and get hot. Like painfully so. According to this 2012 study, thermal heating is responsible for 70% of MRI injuries.”

It’s not going to rip off your genitals.
But you might get burned in 304 steel.

 

would redefine "ring burn" I'd bet.

 

They would strip you and put you in a gown. If you're in ER I guess your cage is the least of your worries.

 

304 and 316 (1.4301 / 1.4401 in ‘new money’ ) are both austenitic stainless steels and are virtually indistinguishable without chemical analysis. 316 has the addition of 2 to 2.5% molybdenum which increases its cost but greatly increases its corrosion resistance. Nether are ‘magnetic’ but if they are cold worked, this can leave a very slight magnetic attraction.

 

MRI scanners use a strong permanent magnet, dynamic gradient magnetic fields, and radio waves to obtain the picture. The RF waves can heat tissue and metallic objects. Metallic objects can also degrade the image quality.

 

I cannot think of a single reason why an unconscious person would ever be in an MRI scanner from the ER. It won`t happen because it is too dangerous and requires a huge number of people and specialists to accomplish.

Enjoy you cage without worry. They got your back, er...um....penis.

 

I am a registered nurse with over 25 years of experience. Early in my career I worked shifts in the emergency room, and later as a nursing supervisor I handled all hospital nursing staff.

I can assure you, I have never known of an unconscious person admitted to the emergency room who underwent a MRI in an unconscious state. In the extremely unlikely case that this were to happen, the patient would be fully stripped and all metal jewelry/accessories removed from their body, whatever the composition of the metal.


Slightly changing the subject, several years ago we had a conscious male patient in the ER who needed to be catheterized. He was wearing a metal chastity device, which at the time was the first one I had ever seen. He had no key for it and did not want it removed, but he eventually agreed to it and doctors and nursing staff had no problem in removing it to allow for the catheterization. I won't go into mechanical details on how this was done, but the patient suffered no physical pain or injury during the removal process.

Moral of this story: For you guys locked in chastity, don't worry about access to an emergency key for your device. In a medical emergency the ER staff is well capable of removing them.

 

same here! And I agree!

 

@Mistress Janie
This is great testimony! Thank you for sharing!

Was the cage destroyed, or kept whole? I won’t fish for more detail than this.

Mine is custom (piercing secured) and I wouldn’t want to have my cage damaged.

 

We check unconscious patients thoroughly.