A Windows update inadvertently kept a hospital patient knocked out mid-examination while the PC sorted itself out. A machine over at Østfold hospital in Norway forced an auto-update at a particularly bad time - midway through a patient examination - and the medical staff were forced to keep the patient under anaesthesia for one hour longer than necessary. There was no available backup PC with the correct software installed to continue with the procedure during the whole affair, meaning the hospital staff, and unwitting patient, were forced to wait it out. By the time the PC was fully-updated and ready to go with the latest Timeline and Focus Assist features, the procedure was already a wash. Luckily, the patient wasn’t undergoing any serious or emergency treatment at the time when Windows decided a critical update was necessary, and woke up totally unphased by the update debacle. However, applying anaesthesia for longer periods of time than necessary can be a dangerous practice in itself, so the hospital has carried out measures to ensure that this event can never happen again.
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