Doctors Finish Surgery During Blackout with Light from Cell Phones!

http://currentworldnews.net/2007/07...lackout-with-light-from-cell-phones/#comments

"While doctors where in the process of an emergency appendix operation the power went out, but by using the light from cell phones surgeons were able to successfully complete the surgery...."

Another good reason to EDC a light.

Another good reason to NOT go to a hospital without good backup power devices, I'd say.

greenLED said:

Another good reason to NOT go to a hospital without good backup power devices, I'd say.

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Even with backup things can go wrong. I remember making a mad dash to get extension cords to the OR once. Long story short a developing machine used for xrays had a leak that nobody saw. It must have done so for months. The developing fluid must have eaten ate through the floor and eventually managed to short out a 38,000 volt line. When that line blew (as in 2 ft hole in a 2ft thick concrete wall) it managed to takeout the switching equipment that would have switched over to emergency power.

I still remember the the perfusion techs cranking the machines by hand as we brought in extension cords from working outlets. Nobody died that I know of but if they did I would have really believed in fate because the odds of what happened were pretty slim.