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Surgery under cell phone lights
The light from the cell phone screens allowed surgeons to complete an emergency appendix operation during a blackout in a city in central Argentina, reports said.
- Reuters
- Published: 00:01 July 30, 2007
- Quick-thinking relative helps complete emergency appendix operation during blackout.
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Buenos Aires: The light from the cell phone screens allowed surgeons to complete an emergency appendix operation during a blackout in a city in central Argentina, reports said.
Leonardo Molina, 29, was on the operating table on July 21, when the power went out in the Policlinico Juan D. Peron, the main hospital in Villa Mercedes, a small city in San Luis province.
"The generator, which should have been working correctly, didn't work," a hospital spokesman, whose name was not given, told TN television news station.
"The surgeons and anaesthetists were in the dark ... A family member got some cell phones together from people in the hallway and took them in to provide light," he said.
Ricardo Molina, 39, Leonardo's brother, told La Nacion newspaper that the lights were out for an hour and his brother's anaesthesia was wearing off.
Hospital Director Dario Maurer told La Nacion the surgery was without light for about 20 minutes.
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