AEROPLANE'S DASH
BABY'S LIFE SAVED
An urgent SOS for a specialist surgeon was sent from the Hospital for Sick Children, in Great Ormond Street, London, when an eight months girl patient arrived in London by plane from Guernsey, states the "Daily Telegraph."
Within three hours, of landing at Heston. where a car awaited the baby and her mother and nurse, an open safety pin in the girl's throat had been recovered. The baby was Olive Le Gallez. Her mother missed the pin' from her bib in the afternoon and took her to Guernsey hospital, where X-ray showed the pin in her throat. As there is no equipment to deal with such emergencies in Guernsey, it was decided to send the baby the 185 miles to London.
The operation was performed by Mr. Alexander Simpson-Smith, a Harley Street specialist, who was called from a dinner engagement and came to the hospital in evening clothes.. He changed while the child was receiving preliminary treatment for an operation of this nature.
The pin was recovered with a bronchoscope, a probing instrument, with a light. Forceps can be passed through the instrument.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 52, 30 August 1939, Page 13
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188AEROPLANE'S DASH Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 52, 30 August 1939, Page 13
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