A surgeon operates while being ordered by e-mail and rescues the life of a 16-year-old boy

It seems that there are doctors who saved the life of a 16 - year - old boy, conducting operations while verifying the method of surgery that he had never experienced with the e - mail of the mobile phone.

It seems like a rather haphazard way of doing things, but, as a result, life is saved, so is that it was a flexible response?

Details are as below.
BBC NEWS | Health | Surgeon saves boy's life by text

According to a BBC article, a 16-year-old boy who was injured who lost most of his left arm as if he was bitten by hippo in the Congo or engaged in a conflict was taken in, and it seems that an emergency operation was to be carried out.

I did the operationDoctors Without BordersDr. David Nott, a vascular surgeon who was at the facility. Dr. Nott had never undergone similar surgery so far, but since she was in a condition of life unless she had surgery, she asked her doctor in London to send the surgical method by e-mail and watched it We decided to do.

Normally, it was a procedure performed on cancer patients in the intensive care unit, which was an operation in the UK that would not be done ten times a year, but Nott's doctor made a successful success and took up the boy's life about. Doctor Nott is participating in a doctor without a seniority for only one month every year, he says he says "I am lucky to be here and making the surgery successful."

2008/12/4 15:04 fixIt was pointed out that the reader was instructed by e-mail, so I fixed it.