It turns out that Google servers not only help millions of people every day in search of new information, but also save lives!
So, 9 cases when Google really helped!
Google Cardboard points helped save the baby
With the help of virtual reality glasses, surgeons from the American hospital did a very complicated operation for a 4-month-old girl named Tigan, who was born with severe heart and lung defects. The baby needed surgical intervention, but the doctors faced a problem. Images of tiny organs obtained with MRI were "granular" and insufficiently detailed to conduct precise actions with the heart and lungs.
Then the doctors decided to resort to virtual glasses from Google. They converted 2D images in 3D and examined the child's organs in detail, as a result of which they were well prepared for the operation and successfully conducted it.
Google rescued terrorists kidnapped by terrorists
In 2011, Australian journalist John Martinkus, who is in Iraq, was captured by terrorists. They took him for a CIA agent and wanted to kill, but Martinkus persuaded them to use Google's search engine to find information about him. Having made sure that their hostage is really a journalist, the militants let him go.
A woman diagnosed with her daughter with a brain tumor
Little Bella suddenly began to complain of frequent headaches. In addition, the girl became very sluggish, and she constantly vomited. Mother took her to the doctor, but he found no reason to worry and said that the child was just trying to attract attention.
The girl's mother was not satisfied with this explanation. Returning home, she turned to Google for help and found that the symptoms manifested in her daughter are characteristic of a brain tumor. The girl was sent for examination to the hospital, where it turned out that there really is a tumor in her brain. Fortunately, she had not yet metastasized, and the child was saved.
Google Translate helped take delivery
Two ambulance doctors from Ireland had to face a difficult situation. The patient began deliveries right on the way to the hospital, and had to take them directly in the car. And then it turned out that the woman who came from the Congo does not understand a word of English. Then the doctors came up with the idea to use Google-translator. With his help, they were able to understand everything that the patient was saying in her Swahili, and successfully accept delivery.
Using Google, a man found his family, which he lost 25 years ago
In 1987, the five-year-old boy Saro Birley, who came from a very poor family, was begging at the railway station. Once a tired child went into the train of one of the trains and fell asleep. And when I woke up, I was at the other end of India. For a long time and unsuccessfully, the boy was trying to find his way home, and in the end was seen by social services and adopted by a couple from Australia. Saro grew up, graduated from university and became the owner of a small store.
Living a full and happy life in Australia, he did not forget about his biological family and was very anxious to find it. Unfortunately, he did not know the name of his native city. The only thing he had left from his early life was scraps of childhood memories.
One day, Saro decided to seek help from Google Earth. In the panoramas, he managed to find a city that corresponded to the impressions of his childhood. Finding the community of this city on Facebook, the man was able to find his family and reunite with her. This happened 25 years after he was lost. The story of Saroos is the basis of the famous film "The Lion" with Nicole Kidman.
Glasses GOOGLE GLASS saved the patient's life
A patient with a brain hemorrhage entered a hospital in Boston. He told the doctor that he was allergic to certain medications, but did not remember which ones. Meanwhile, time passed for seconds: the patient urgently needed drugs that lowered the pressure. Then Dr. Stephen Horn decided to use glasses-computer Google Glass. With their help, he instantly found an electronic medical record of the patient and found out what preparations he could be assigned. The patient was saved.
Google helped a woman diagnose a dangerous disease and save her child's life
At the 36th week of pregnancy Leslie Niedel felt a strong itch in her hands and legs. She consulted her doctor, but he only prescribed her antipruritic cream and asked not to worry.
Just in case, Leslie decided to google information herself about her symptoms and found that her itching can be a sign of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnant women - a dangerous disease that can lead to stillbirth. A woman who has this disease, it is necessary to stimulate childbirth before the 38th week of pregnancy, otherwise it risks losing a child.
Leslie demanded additional tests. When it turned out that she really intrahepatic cholestasis, doctors took urgent measures to save the baby, and it ended well.
Google Maps helped the Chinese find a family
In 1990, a 5-year-old Chinese boy from the city of Guanggan Ball abducted on his way to the kindergarten. He was sold to another family, which lived 1,500 kilometers from his house. The new parents treated the child well, but he did not lose hope of reuniting with his own family. In this case, the only thing he remembered about the city of his childhood - is that it had 2 bridges.
Twenty-three years after the kidnapping, the young Chinese man began to search seriously. He turned to the site, which is engaged in the search for missing children, and found out that 23 years ago in a family from the city of Guanggan, a child disappeared. The man found this city on Google Maps, saw a photo of two familiar bridges and realized that he had finally found his home. After a while he was reunited with his parents.
With the help of Google, a man was cured of a terrible disease
In 2006, the Englishman Adam Riddle was diagnosed with kidney cancer. The kidney was removed and the cancer receded for a time, however in 2012 the disease returned. This time the tumor was inoperable and did not respond to chemotherapy. Not knowing what to do, Riddle decided to consult the Google search system, with which he learned about the experimental therapy of cancer in the Manchester hospital Christie. Although this method had a very low success rate (only 15%) and a lot of side effects, Riddle decided to take a chance, and it worked: experimental treatment saved his life.