Many years ago, when the rocks were just cooling from their magma stage, I was moonlighting at a small community hospital.  My full time job had me doing silly things like jumping out of airplanes with 100lbs of medical gear on my back into some rather nasty areas.  This was a SMALL hospital with just 2 cardiac beds.  The closest trauma 1 was at least one and a half hours away.  We had the first bed occupied and a second in route.  The cardiac monitor system on the second bed would not power on and the facility had been waiting a week for the system tech to come work on it.  The cardiologist was ready to try and reroute the inbound patient when I took a look at the system and saw that the power "button" on the membrane control panel was considerably worn.  As the cardiologist started to have his own dysrhythmia, I pulled out my handy dandy knife and cut three sides of the membrane control and pulled it down.  Sure enough the contact was worn beyond belief.  With the cardiologist yelling at me and me telling him NOT to reroute the patient, I ran down to the snack machine and bought a pack of Wrigley's Big Red gum.  The look on his face as I came running back in the room and popping a piece of the gum in my mouth was rather hilarious.  He was beet red as I took the inner wrapper, cut it down and folded it into a small square with the foil out.  I then framed the foil with dermapore tape and taped the control membrane back in place and powered on the system.  We were able to stabilize the patient without having him potentially suffering any more damage with the added transport time.  The patient went home a week and a half later and the facility had the machine replaced.  That is how I saved a patient with a quick electronic repair using a gum wrapper.

Many years ago, when the rocks were just cooling from their magma stage, I was moonlighting at a small community hospital.  My full time job had me doing silly things like jumping out of airplanes with 100lbs of medical gear on my back into some rather nasty areas.  This was a SMALL hospital with just 2 cardiac beds.  The closest trauma 1 was at least one and a half hours away.  We had the first bed occupied and a second in route.  The cardiac monitor system on the second bed would not power on and the facility had been waiting a week for the system tech to come work on it.  The cardiologist was ready to try and reroute the inbound patient when I took a look at the system and saw that the power "button" on the membrane control panel was considerably worn.  As the cardiologist started to have his own dysrhythmia, I pulled out my handy dandy knife and cut three sides of the membrane control and pulled it down.  Sure enough the contact was worn beyond belief.  With the cardiologist yelling at me and me telling him NOT to reroute the patient, I ran down to the snack machine and bought a pack of Wrigley's Big Red gum.  The look on his face as I came running back in the room and popping a piece of the gum in my mouth was rather hilarious.  He was beet red as I took the inner wrapper, cut it down and folded it into a small square with the foil out.  I then framed the foil with dermapore tape and taped the control membrane back in place and powered on the system.  We were able to stabilize the patient without having him potentially suffering any more damage with the added transport time.  The patient went home a week and a half later and the facility had the machine replaced.  That is how I saved a patient with a quick electronic repair using a gum wrapper.