Cell Phones to the Rescue … in Surgery?

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

Well, yeah, in surgery. If you have a power outage, and the generators don’t kick in … you improvise. A power outage in Argentina during an appendectomy, but the generator didn’t start. What do you do? Gather up a bunch of cell phones and use the light from them, that’s what.

“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 anesthetists 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. Source: Reuters

We Say: I’ll admit that I’ve used my cell phone before instead of a flashlight for something simple like finding my keys, but surgery? That’s pretty gutsy.