When passing gas during surgery is a bad idea

[John Connor]

The woman, in her 30s, who has not been named, was undergoing a surgery on her cervix at the Tokyo Medical University Hospital in Shinjuku Ward on April 15. In the midst of the operation, while doctors focused a laser on her cervix, the lower part of the uterus, the woman passed gas.

It’s difficult to overstate how minuscule the chance of that normal bodily function causing a problem truly is.

The laser reportedly ignited the gas, causing a blaze that caught the surgical drape on fire before spreading down her skin. It ended up burning much of her body, particularly from her waist and down her legs, according to the English-language version of the Asahi Shimbun. Her current condition is unknown.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...as-during-laser-surgery-she-was-badly-burned/

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[BoomerD]

Really?

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/blazing-fartu-no-jutsu.2490787/

(yours has a better, more descriptive title though)