A lung doctor uses a scope to free a kitten stuck in a wall
Dr. Benjamin Seides of Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital used a borescope, a camera like the one he uses to look inside airways, to find five-month-old Neko behind a basement wall.
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A lung doctor turned a tool of his trade on a wall, CBS News Chicago reported. Dr. Benjamin Seides, of Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, used a borescope to locate five-month-old Neko after the kitten slipped behind a basement wall. The camera is the same idea as the scope he uses to look inside airways: a way to see a space a person cannot enter.
He found the cat and got Neko out. The station's account is that one rescue, using a camera built for tight places, not a new treatment and not a promise about every animal in a wall.
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A five-month-old kitten named Neko got stuck behind a basement wall. The person who found a way to see the cat was a lung doctor, Dr. Benjamin Seides, who works at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Illinois. In the hospital he uses a thin camera to look inside people's airways. At home he used a borescope, a small camera on a flexible tube, the way a doctor uses a scope. He could see where Neko was and get the kitten out. The tool that helps patients look inside a lung also helped a cat behind the drywall.
- Why would a camera on a thin tube help when you cannot see behind a wall?
- What should someone do first if a pet is trapped and scared?
- What other job tools could help an animal without hurting it?
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