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- From: king@reasoning.com (Dick King)
- Newsgroups: sci.med,ca.earthquakes
- Subject: earthquakes during surgery
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.232601.15723@kestrel.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 23:26:01 GMT
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- I could imagine that it would be disconcerting, to say the least, to have the
- ground shake while you're meticulously cutting and repairing a patient.
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- However, i understand there to be devices that can give you perhaps a fifteen
- seconds warning of an impending 'quake. They work because it takes a while for
- the shock to travel from the fault to elsewhere, so a device mounted on a fault
- can send a radio signal that can be picked up. I suspect that fifteen seconds
- would help a lot if you want to avoid cutting random wiring or plumbing within
- the patient.
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- Does anyone know what is done about the possibility of an earthquake during
- surgery, in the real world?
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- -dk
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