Show surgeon working in dark saves the life of patient PATERSON N J when a power failure plunged the operating room of st joseph josephs s hospital into dark ness a surgeon held a patient patients s sev ered abdona abdominal inal artery for 30 mm min utes until the hospital hospitals s emer emergency geney lighting system was put into opera tion dr V W giudice who was per forming an appendectomy assisted by dr francis J brogan had made the incision in the patient patients s abdomen just as the operating room went dark dr giudice notified noticed that blood was spurting from the inci mci sion dr giudice located the ar tery in the darkness holding it while nurses brought flashlights and candles the light was still too dim to proceed with the operation working carefully so as not to halt the flow of blood in the patient patients s body en the surgeon clasped the ar tery to prevent further loss of blood the surgeons successfully corn plated the operation after the emer gency lighting system was started and the 65 year old patient was said to have suffered no ill effects |