Is called operating room To that room or room found in sanatoriums, hospitals or medical care centers and that is specially equipped for the practice of surgical operations for those patients who request it. Likewise, in the operating room, other related activities can be deployed, such as: the supply of anesthesia, a resuscitation action, among others, so that, later, the aforementioned surgical intervention can be carried out successfully.
The basic objective proposed by an operating room is to be up to the task whatever the circumstance, that is, it must offer doctors and patients a suitable and prepared context both for the development of scheduled operations and for those emergency cases in which there is no time to prepare anything, but directly act to save the life of an individual, for example.
Regarding the requirements and conditions that an operating room must observe in order to satisfactorily fulfill its mission, the following are: it must be a closed space; It must be located in an independent place with respect to the rest of the medical institution, although close to those sensitive areas such as emergency rooms, blood bank, clinical analysis laboratory, pharmacy; The circulation of people should be minimal, it should only allow access to the patient, to the interdisciplinary team that usually acts in an operation: surgeon, anesthetist, radiologist, gastroenterologist, operating room nurse, nursing assistant, orderly, surgical instrumentalist, among others; and cleaning and the aspiration to achieve a zero degree of contamination is another sine quanom condition that must be observed by the operating room and the adjoining rooms that have been attached (changing rooms, offices); it will be achieved by limiting the access of people to what is necessary, performing deep cleaning and disinsection several times a day and removing all waste material.
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