I worked a few years ago in the repair workshop of medical equipment of a large medical institution. Because the hospital is big, it is big. Operating room on 3 tables, for example. But the technology is there, respectively, 3 times more, and therefore failures happen more often than we would like. But if deothermia, artificial ventilation apparatus of the lungs or narco-respiratory equipment can be quickly switched to a backup, then with the operating table such jokes do not pass, and he, not good, has an unpleasant feature to spell with "falling legs". The hydraulic in the wrong handling leaps through the point of return. then you need to open the crane and squeeze the excess pressure. Despite the fact that the malfunction is typical, developers still hide the drop-down cranes (sometimes valves) under the shell of the central cylinder on all models, and in order to "lift the legs", you need to disassemble the half-table. But the Russian master is lazy, and therefore will come up with a way to bypass the uncomfortable technology. Here we have adapted with the help of a hammer and a very long screwdriver through the alkaline in the casket to switch this foolish valve quickly and without disrupting the order of work in other areas.

"The legs" fell on this day when on one of the tables the operation has already started, on the second - the patient was lying waiting for anesthesiologists. At the "our" table, the patient waited for a turn in the hallway. Full sterility in operation. We were dressed in a sterile box, so that only the eyes could be seen. The instrument was rubbed with spirits and the masters were introduced to the opera. The hall.

According to the staff, when the patient saw entering the operating room
“Anesthesiologists” with a hammer and a half-meter screwdriver in their hands, he tried to escape and whispered (he could not scream): “Show me. What do they do with Nicholas (the sick on the first table)