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Broward woman strangled by electronic massager

BY DANIEL CHANG AND LAURA FIGUEROA dchang@MiamiHerald.com

Her neck aching after a night of wrapping gifts on Christmas Eve, Dr. Michelle Ferrari-Gegerson used an electronic massager to relieve the pain.

What happened next is unclear, but Broward Sheriff's Office detectives and the Medical Examiner suspect the electronic massager became ensnared with a necklace Ferrari-Gegerson was wearing, and strangled her.

Ferrari-Gegerson, a Jackson Memorial Hospital radiologist, was discovered unconscious on the bedroom floor of her Parkland home about 9 p.m. Friday by her husband, Dr. Kenneth Gegerson, 43, a dentist.

Gegerson, who could not be reached for comment this week, dialed 911. When police and paramedics arrived, they found an electronic massager on the floor near Ferrari-Gegerson, according to BSO.

Police are withholding the brand and other details of the electronic massager while the investigation continues.

Jackson Memorial Hospital colleagues this week recalled Ferrari-Gegerson, 37, as a thorough professional and thoughtful friend.

``She was really an amazing human being in the sense that she was a proficient physician,'' said Barbara Perez Deppman, director for radiology at the hospital.

Ferrari-Gegerson worked as a radiologist in the emergency room, Deppman said, and also served as the quality improvement and patient safety physician for radiology.

She had worked at the hospital since 2001, and developed a reputation as a generous friend.

``Last week she was here and she brought baked goods for various employees,'' Deppman recalled. ``That's what type of person she was. Out of the blue, she would just give people food vouchers and take them out to lunch.''

Deppman said Ferrari-Gegerson had been married about 10 years and was the mother of a one-year-old child.

A graduate of Florida Atlantic University and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Ferrari-Gegerson also had been an assistant professor of clinical radiology at UM for about two years.

Ferrari-Gegerson's apparent accident is not the first incident where an electronic massager has reportedly strangled someone.

In December 2008, the Matoba Electric Manufacturing Company based in Saitama, Japan recalled an electronic foot massager after three reported cases in that country of women strangling themselves accidentally while using the machine as a neck massager.

In all the cases, the women removed a cloth cover from the Arubi Shape-Up roller, and the collar of their shirts ended up getting caught in the machine's rollers.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has reported recalling three types of electronic massagers since 1998, though none were reported to have caused a death.

Instead, each recall involved back massagers that posed more of a fire hazard.

The most recent recall was in April 2006 for the Brookstone Foldable Massaging Bed Rest. The product was recalled after complaints that electrical circuits overheated and posed a fire and burn hazard.

In December 2001, the manufacturers of the Deep Knead Shiatsu back massagers voluntarily recalled about 15,000 of the machines after complaints that it overheated and posed a fire hazard.

And in May 1998, the commission recalled 183,000 back massage cushions distributed by Sears, because the devices' motors had the tendency to over heat and burn through the cushion.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/29/1992860/broward-woman-strangled-by-neck.html#ixzz19b9fH9uG

Submitted on 12/30/2010

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: MIami Herald 12/29/10

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