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●  In the event of an incident or medical emergency requiring medical attention to subject or other persons, the level 2 certified user on duty shall first call 911 (or instruct an alternate individual to call) and remove the person from the magnet room, so that the emergency response team will not need to enter the magnet room.  If this is not possible, the magnet must first be quenched to enable access by emergency medical staff and their equipment.  The latter situation is to be avoided if at all possible, but examples of situations requiring a quench might include pinning of a subject by physical interaction with magnetic fields, or a traumatic back or neck injury where a person is severely injured and cannot be mechanically stabilized sufficiently to move them outside of the 50G line for treatment.  To assist operators in the event of an emergency, task lists for emergency procedures are kept in a red blue binder in the magnet control room.

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