短信挽救生命

David Nott, a surgeon with the volunteer group Doctors Without Borders, saved a teenage boy's life in the Congo - helped only by text messages. Nott, a vascular surgeon, realized that the sixteen-year old boy, whose left arm was bitten by a hippo, had no chance of survival unless he amputated the arm.

大卫•诺特是志愿性组织无国界医师组织的一名外科医生，仅通过短信挽救了一名十来岁的刚果男孩儿。诺特是一名血管外科医生，他了解到一名16岁的男孩儿的左臂被河马咬伤，如果不截去手臂将无生存希望。

Since he had never performed this kind of operation before, Nott contacted a colleague in the UK who had. The two could only communicate by text message, as regular phone contact was impossible with the Congo's lack of connections. His colleague sent step-by-step instructions over the phone, and Nott successfully carried out the amputation, despite having only a primitive operations room and a single pint of blood to work with. The teenager is expected to make a full recovery.

因为此前他从未操作过这种手术，诺特联系到英国一位有此类经验的同事。因为刚果通信网络不健全，不能进行正常的电话联络，两人只能通过短信进行交流。他的同事在短信中将操作步骤一步一步地发送给诺特，虽然手术室简陋，只有一品脱血，诺特却成功地完成了截肢手术。那个男孩儿有希望完全恢复健康。