医生穿防弹衣从士兵脑中取炸弹

　　An unexploded bomb embedded in a patient's chest had been the plot of a TV show — a two-part episode of "Grey’s Anatomy" in 2006. But now a 14.5 millimeter unexploded round - more than 2 inches long - was removed from the scalp of an Afghan National Army soldier at the Bagram Air Field hospital by doctors with body armor after five hours。

　　When the Afghan soldier, in his 20s, arrived at the base, doctors thought it was shrapnel or the spent end of some sort of round, but as he reviewed a CAT scan of the soldier, he realized it was a 14.5 millimeter unexploded round containing at least two ounces of dynamite。

　　Maj. John Bini, a trauma surgeon, immediately evacuated the operating room and surrounding hallways. Only the anesthesiologist, Maj. Jeffrey Rengel, who put on body armor, was left to watch the patient. All electrical monitoring devices in the operating room were turned off for fear of detonating the round. To keep track of the patient’s vital signs, doctors turned to manual blood pressure cuffs。

　　Within a half-hour, the bomb disposal team arrived. With that for reassurance Dr. Bini put on body armor as well, and he began the process of surgically removing the round from the patient's head, joined in the operating room only by Dr. Rengel and a member of the bomb team. He cut through scalp tissue and made a large incision encircling the round, which was lodged under a piece of skull bone and jutted down the right side of the patient’s head. Within 10 minutes, he pulled out the live round. With care, he handed it to the bomb technician, who put it in a bag and left。

　　Bini said that while there have been similar cases of unexploded ordnance being removed from patients, this was the first such case he knows of in the Afghanistan war, which started in late 2001. In the past 50 years of modern warfare, there have been fewer than 50 cases of this type, he said. The patient is continuing to improve, the Air Force statement said。