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- From: bverreau@mipos2.intel.com (Bernie Verreau)
- Newsgroups: sci.med,ca.earthquakes
- Subject: Re: earthquakes during surgery
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 16:09:37 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.232601.15723@kestrel.edu>
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- In article <232601.15723@kestrel.edu> king@reasoning.com (Dick King) writes:
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- > Does anyone know what is done about the possibility of an earthquake during
- > surgery, in the real world?
-
- As a matter of fact, my wife is a surgical resident at Cedars/Sinai in BH,
- and she did happen to be in OR during the Landers quakes. She said lights
- began to sway overhead, and when everyone realized what was happening, they
- just stepped to the side and waited it out. No problem, at least not for
- the patient. He was unconscious at the time.
-
- Of more concern than motion during surgery - shipboard surgeons have to
- deal with this all the time - is the potential damage to the hospital.
- From the local geoseismal maps Cedars appears to be located dangerously
- close to soil with a high liquefaction potential. I believe the central
- hospital was constructed after the 1971 San Fernando quake, so there is
- probably no danger of total building collapse, but a major tremor on one
- of several nearby faults could cause major structural damage to the wings.
-
- Bernie Verreau bverreau@netcom.com
- Netcom Online Communications Redwood City, CA
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