[Asepsis and hospital architecture: the surroundings of the operating theatre (author's transl)]. 1978

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The author contends one can not plan an operatief theatre and its organization, if it is dissociated from its immediate dependencies, entrances and exists. a) The necessity of the following dependencies is discussed: 1. an anesthetic room forming a sas between the entrance hall for the patient and the operating room that makes possible the preop. preparation; 2. an area where the surgeons may prepare, corectly ventilated and reserved to the entrance of the surgical team; 3. a reserve of sterile equipment in immediate contact with the operating threater; 4. a disposal area for the linen and soiled material and that may serve to the transfer of the patient after the operation, given the wastes be evacuated in thermosealed bags. b) The circuits of the personel is then considered with a study of the one way cloak-rooms, and an example is given. Then comes the introduction in these circuits of the so-called septic operating room and of room for decontamination of instruments that can be superimposed with the place of evacuation of the equipment. In conclusion, the author mentions the evacuation of atmospheric particles released in the operating theatre and the methods of improving asepsis. He suggests the surgeon be very critic concerning the techniques proposed by the advertising.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D009873 Operating Rooms Facilities equipped for performing surgery. Operating Room,Room, Operating,Rooms, Operating
D010564 Personnel, Hospital The individuals employed by the hospital. Hospital Personnel
D006749 Hospital Design and Construction The architecture, functional design, and construction of hospitals. Hospital Renovation,Hospital Renovations,Hospital Construction,Hospital Construction and Design,Hospital Design,Hospital Designs,Construction, Hospital,Design, Hospital,Designs, Hospital,Renovation, Hospital,Renovations, Hospital
D000985 Antisepsis The destruction of germs causing disease.
D001207 Asepsis The prevention of access by infecting organisms to the locus of potential infection.
D013523 Surgical Equipment Nonexpendable apparatus used during surgical procedures. They are differentiated from SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, usually hand-held and used in the immediate operative field. Equipment, Surgical,Equipments, Surgical,Surgical Equipments
D014691 Ventilation Supplying a building or house, their rooms and corridors, with fresh air. The controlling of the environment thus may be in public or domestic sites and in medical or non-medical locales. (From Dorland, 28th ed) Ventilations

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