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Line 1: {{Short description\|Table on which a patient lies during a surgical operation}} {{Refimprove\|date=September 2022}} [[File:BLW 19th Century Operating Table.jpg\|thumb\|right\|170px\|A 19th-century operating table.]]An '''operating table''', sometimes called '''[[operating room]] [[Table (furniture)\|table]]''', is the table on which the patient lies during a surgical operation.<ref name=TFD>[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/operating+table Operating table], thefreedictionary.com</ref> This surgical equipment is usually found inside the [[surgery]] room of a [[hospital]].<ref name=Reverso>[http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-cobuild/operating%20table Operating table], dictionary.reverso.net</ref> A specialized type of operating table, called a surgical fracture table (or trauma table), is designed to allow an [[Orthopedic surgery\|orthopedic surgeon]] to perform common orthopedic procedures such as [[Hip fracture\|hip fractures]], [[Pelvic fracture\|pelvic fractures]], [[Tibial fracture\|tibial fractures]], [[Crus fracture\|fibula fractures]], and anterior approach total hip [[Hip replacement\|arthroplasty]].<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Operating Tables {{!}} OR Tables {{!}} Surgical Tables {{!}} STERIS \|url=https://www.steris.com/healthcare/products/surgical-tables \|access-date=2023-09-18 \|website=www.steris.com}}</ref> Modern surgical fracture tables cost >US$200,000, but the costs can be reduced to make them more accessible using distributed [[Digital modeling and fabrication\|digital fabrication]] with [[3D printing]] of [[open-source hardware]] designs.<ref>{{Cite journal \|last1=Bow \|first1=J. K. \|last2=Gallup \|first2=N. \|last3=Sadat \|first3=S. A. \|last4=Pearce \|first4=J. M. \|date=2022-07-15 \|title=Open source surgical fracture table for digitally distributed manufacturing \|journal=PLOS ONE \|language=en \|volume=17 \|issue=7 \|pages=e0270328 \|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0270328 \|issn=1932-6203 \|pmc=9286293 \|pmid=35839177 \|bibcode=2022PLoSO..1770328B \|doi-access=free }}</ref> == Definition == Line 54: ==Further reading== [https://web.archive.org/web/20060823200348/http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpcd/classification.cfm?start_search=1&DeviceName=&ProductCode=&ThirdParty=&DeviceClass=1&SUBMISSION_TYPE_ID=4&GMPExempt=N&Panel=&RegulationNumber=878.4950&PAGENUM=10&SortColumn=DeviceName Product Classification] [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29076886/ Air Warming] *[https://www.agasan.com/en/operation-and-multi-function-tables.html Types of Operation tables]