MAS Design was commissioned by KeyMed Division of Olympus to conceive, develop and engineer a new operating table for day surgery use. For a typical day-surgery operation, the patients are moved from recovery chair to hospital trolley to operating table, and back again. The process is inefficient and requires the porters, nurses and doctors to manhandle the patients. This is far from ideal. The Olympus Chairbed was developed in response to this. It replaces the recovery chair, trolley and operating table. Beyond these logistical improvements, it has the following advantages:

> generous x-ray clearance and transparency
> height and angle adjustment (useful for both patient and doctor)
> lightweight and wheelable by one person
> ‘trendellenburg’ facility (head lowering)
> oxygen and IV pole carriage
> versions are available specifically for gynaecology and urology in order to alleviate problems of poor posture/bad backs common among doctors in these specialism.