Chantelle Mooney, 41, was scheduled for treatment the same day as the Crowdstrike incident.
Chantelle Mooney was scheduled for surgery on a brain tumour at Royal Preston Hospital in Lancashire on Friday A woman’s emergency cancer surgery has been delayed by a week after this week’s mass IT outage forced doctors to cancel her surgery. Chantelle Mooney, 41, was scheduled for craniotomy to remove a four-centimetre tumour from her brain on Friday. However, the surgeons were unable to go ahead due to the Crowdstrike outage, which affected more than 8.
Chantelle said: ‘The brain tumour was only found three weeks ago, it’s four centimetres across and has to be removed as an emergency.’ Her doctors waited until 1.30pm to see if the tech could be brought back online but ultimately decided they could not risk another outage in the middle of the procedure, which can take between four and seven hours. Chantelle explained: ‘A lot of the tools and scans use Microsoft and they use it for emergency medication.
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