Surgery is scary enough here in the U.S. where we have high-tech operating rooms with back-up generators and all kinds of systems in place to ensure that nothing will go wrong, but not all countries are so lucky. A man in Argentina recently got to experience first-hand a "worst case scenerio" surgery when the power and lights went out in the middle of his emergency appendectomy operation. There was a backup generator, but it wasn't working properly, and so a quick thinking (and creative!) family member ended up collecting several cell phones together and using those to provide enough light for the surgeons to finish up the procedure. And the patient, 29 year old Leonardo Molina, came through it just fine.

One more way that cell phones can help in an emergency!


Via Engadget