Doctor preforms amputation by SMS
http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/12/03/2345206.shtml
“Vascular surgeon David Nott performed a life-saving amputation on a
boy in DR Congo following instructions sent by text message from a
colleague in London. The boy’s left arm had been ripped off and was
badly infected and gangrenous; there were just 6in (15cm) of the boy’s
arm remaining, much of the surrounding muscle had died and there was
little skin to fold over the wound. ‘He had about two or three days to
live when I saw him,’ Nott said. Nott, volunteering with the medical
charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, knew he needed to perform a
forequarter amputation requiring removal of the collar bone and
shoulder blade and contacted Professor Meirion Thomas at London’s
Royal Marsden Hospital, who had performed the operation before. 'I
texted him and he texted back step by step instructions on how to do
it,’ Nott said.”
read some of the comments:
WASSUP CUT ARM STCH SKN ! BL0D. LOL
He intended to do a prostate exam, so it’s not quite as good as it sounds.
Taken from the text logs:
MK UR FST CT ALNG CLR BON WTH STRLZD RZR K?
Things got a little dangerous when another text message came in from
his wife mid operation.
U WANT LEG OR SHOLDER CUT FOR DINR?
Heh, but still some great work. It’s tragic though that there’s still
a dearth of medical facilities in some countries and life-saving
make-do operations like this are common. Kudos to Medicines Sans
Frontiers for doing what our own governments should be doing.
What exactly _is_ the emoticon for 'cut off limb X’?
:->-..^..
this
one
DN: hai r u awake?? im wrkn, ths guys missn heaps of his arm, wwyd?
MT: lol sup? tru tru… kk well ur guna need 2 do a 4 ¼ amp. req rm
of the cola bone n shlda blde.
DN: yea nm nm…… ok so txt me how
MT: ok is he there now?
DN: no im at home
MT: txt me wen u get there k?
I heard the doctor actually texted full instructions on how to
reattach the arm but after 151 characters it got cut off.
Verizon takes an arm and leg for text messages every month, so
amputation by text message isn’t anything new.
“Vascular surgeon David Nott performed a life-saving amputation on a
boy in DR Congo following instructions sent by text message from a
colleague in London. The boy’s left arm had been ripped off and was
badly infected and gangrenous; there were just 6in (15cm) of the boy’s
arm remaining, much of the surrounding muscle had died and there was
little skin to fold over the wound. ‘He had about two or three days to
live when I saw him,’ Nott said. Nott, volunteering with the medical
charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, knew he needed to perform a
forequarter amputation requiring removal of the collar bone and
shoulder blade and contacted Professor Meirion Thomas at London’s
Royal Marsden Hospital, who had performed the operation before. 'I
texted him and he texted back step by step instructions on how to do
it,’ Nott said.”
read some of the comments:
WASSUP CUT ARM STCH SKN ! BL0D. LOL
He intended to do a prostate exam, so it’s not quite as good as it sounds.
Taken from the text logs:
MK UR FST CT ALNG CLR BON WTH STRLZD RZR K?
Things got a little dangerous when another text message came in from
his wife mid operation.
U WANT LEG OR SHOLDER CUT FOR DINR?
Heh, but still some great work. It’s tragic though that there’s still
a dearth of medical facilities in some countries and life-saving
make-do operations like this are common. Kudos to Medicines Sans
Frontiers for doing what our own governments should be doing.
What exactly _is_ the emoticon for 'cut off limb X’?
:->-..^..
this
one
DN: hai r u awake?? im wrkn, ths guys missn heaps of his arm, wwyd?
MT: lol sup? tru tru… kk well ur guna need 2 do a 4 ¼ amp. req rm
of the cola bone n shlda blde.
DN: yea nm nm…… ok so txt me how
MT: ok is he there now?
DN: no im at home
MT: txt me wen u get there k?
I heard the doctor actually texted full instructions on how to
reattach the arm but after 151 characters it got cut off.
Verizon takes an arm and leg for text messages every month, so
amputation by text message isn’t anything new.