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	Hospital Operating Rooms - Engineering Guide
		In the hospital operating room, the control of airborne contaminants is a consideration in addition to the room comfort conditions.
		Particles entering the operating room by ventilation can be controlled with the use of high efficiency particulate filters, while infiltration is controlled by maintaining a positive pressure in the operating room as compared to the surrounding spaces.
		The role of the ceiling in an operating room is to seal the room from the ceiling plenum.
	www.price-hvac.com /catalog/E_all/E_HTML/E_EG4.html (1665 words)

	A State-of-the-Future Surgical Platform at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Although 17 of the operating rooms are 600 square feet, four are 750 square feet, and one of these larger rooms houses an intraoperative MRI while two are designed to accommodate intraoperative MRIs in the future, and the fourth is equipped for orthopedic surgery.
		Operating rooms must be able to provide a complex array of lighting levels for different tasks and procedures.
		The main corridor leading to all the operating rooms is wider than a typical hospital corridor, with artwork on the walls, indirect cove lighting, and a vaulted ceiling—all contributing to a welcoming, friendly feel for patients and staff.
	www.aia.org /nwsltr_print.cfm?pagename=aah_jrnl_20061018_surgical (3985 words)

	Operating Room Information on Healthline
		An operating room may be designed and equipped to provide care to patients with a range of conditions, or it may be designed and equipped to provide specialized care to patients with specific conditions.
		The patient is brought to the operating room on a wheelchair or bed with wheels (called a gurney).
		The patient is transferred from the gurney to the operating table, which is narrow and has safety straps to keep him or her positioned correctly.
	www.healthline.com /galecontent/operating-room (793 words)

	Future operating rooms, Trondheim, Norway
		The project "Operating rooms of the future" was established as a cooperation between St. Olavs Hospital, University Hospital of Trondheim and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
		The two operating rooms are made for the development, testing and application of new technology, and new treatment modalities, especially within minimally invasive surgery.
		Collaboration between industrial companies and "Operating rooms of the future" has made it possible to develop prototypes which can be tested in cooperation between clinicians, technologists and scientists in a safe way.
	www.rit.no /stolav/for-e/index.htm (1093 words)

	Bayshore operating rooms enter digital age
		The operating rooms, once a combination of analog technology and digital upgrades, are now made up of fully digital components that save space in the operating room, provide for added clarity and ease of use, as well as offer amenities to surgeons that save time and enhance accuracy.
		The rooms consist of two large digital displays that can be used independently from one another to show X-rays and orthoscopic photography more clearly, and at the touch of a button or the sound of a surgeon's voice, according to Margaret Kinsella, a registered nurse and perioperative clinician at Bayshore hospital.
		All of the operating room's machinery is centrally located, stacked on a movable tray that can swivel and turn to make room for the surgeon and other surgical staff, which saves time and keeps the surgeon's mind on the patient, not the machinery.
	independent.gmnews.com /news/2006/0308/Front_page/008.html (627 words)

	Why Wait? Small Town Operating Rooms Are Empty :: thetyee.ca
		Empty operating rooms are easy to find in small towns across the province, but not because there are no surgical patients there -- those patients are simply tacked onto lists at larger urban hospitals.
		The hospital was built to accommodate 70 beds and six operating rooms at a time when the population projections in the area were far different than they are today.
		With several operating room nurses and two anesthetists living in the community, the hospital is well-served to provide day surgeries to area residents.
	thetyee.ca /Life/2004/09/22/SmallTownWaitingroomsEmpty (2014 words)

	Future operating rooms, Trondheim, Norway
		The project "Operating rooms of the future" was established as a cooperation between St. Olavs Hospital, University Hospital of Trondheim and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
		The two operating rooms are made for the development, testing and application of new technology, and new treatment modalities, especially within minimally invasive surgery.
		The operating rooms of the future are equipped to perform minimally invasive surgery.
	www.stolav.no /stolav/for-e/index.htm (1093 words)

	Baptist Health of Northeast Florida
		These operating rooms, the first of their kind in Northeast Florida, provide surgeons with comprehensive access and control of critical devices in conjunction with networked digital documentation and telemedicine capabilities.
		Operating rooms currently consist of towers of equipment and monitors with wires, connectors and tubes all running from the surgical field and patient back to the towers.
		The i-Suites take the towers out of the operating rooms, freeing up the rooms from the tubes, wires and connectors that snake their way to the towers and gives surgeons a more open surgical field and easy access to monitors with patient vital signs, digital images and other important information easily readable.
	community.e-baptisthealth.com /archives/2004/0329or.html (467 words)

	Barnes-Jewish Hospital - Barnes-Jewish unveils its new operating rooms
		Barnes-Jewish Hospital is opening 28 new operating rooms and a 21-bed cardiothoracic intensive-care unit this month in the first phase of a $95 million project that will transform and expand its inpatient-surgery capabilities.
		When the new operating rooms open, the hospital will close older inpatient operating rooms in two waves to make room for 86 recovery rooms and surgical prep beds, a new processing area to sterilize equipment and 20 additional operating rooms.
		The new inpatient operating rooms are a minimum of 600 square feet, compared to 350 square feet in the older rooms.
	www.barnesjewish.org /groups/?NavID=2101 (626 words)

	Operating Room Air Distribution - Office of Facilities Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The greatest amount of the bacteria found in the operating room comes from the surgical team and is a result of their activities during surgery.
		Dedicated supply and exhaust systems are required for operating rooms to maintain inside design conditions of 19°C (68°F), 55% RH in summer and 23°C (75°F), 50% RH in winter.
		Air should be supplied at a lower velocity above the operating table and at a higher velocity at the perimeter of the operating table.
	www.va.gov /facmgt/consulting/orair.asp (322 words)

	Making Room For Medical Technologies
		Generally, these operating rooms are larger than traditional operating rooms to allow for the overall increase in equipment, as well as adequate space for staff to move around the equipment booms.
		It must provide general lighting for room prep and cleanup, bright lighting if the room is sometimes used for general surgery procedures, and dimmed lighting for laparoscopic or minimally invasive procedures where the surgeon is viewing the procedure on a monitor.
		Hospital rooms of all types, including those in intensive care units and emergency departments, are becoming crammed with equipment, including PCs and mobile equipment such as ultrasound units.
	www.facilitiesnet.com /bom/article.asp?id=2132 (1834 words)

	OR of the Future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		These operating rooms are 30 percent larger and bring together the latest innovations in design and technology to benefit today's surgical patients.
		One of the operating rooms is outfitted with galvanized steel and copper walls to house an MRI scanner, which is not normally found in an OR.
		Surgeons are able to use the MRI within the operating room to assess their progress--without closing up the patient and determining later that a second surgery is needed.
	www.umm.edu /mitc/or.html (745 words)

	Virtua Health Reopens Operating Rooms in Marlton Hospital
		During the testing of the anesthesia unit in the operating room, a minor leak of nitrous oxide (an anesthetic gas also commonly used in dentists' offices) was detected and the leak was corrected.
		Following the testing, a number of steps were taken to ensure that the staff and surgeons performing surgery in the operating rooms would be comfortable and feel secure in their work environment.
		Once the operating rooms are opened, we will continue to monitor air quality, protective helmet performance and the comfort and health of our operating room staff.
	www.stachybotrys.com /Public/Virtua_PR.htm (852 words)

	Northeast Surgical Care - Smith & Nephew Unveils Voice-Activated Operating Rooms
		Smith and Nephew hopes the operating rooms will be the revolutionary new product it needs to drive sales at hospitals and surgical centers worldwide.
		The rooms, which come with a sticker price of anywhere from $150,000 to $350,000, promise to change the way operating rooms are laid out and speed up surgeries.
		Smith and Nephew estimates 90,000 to 100,000 operating rooms around the world are scheduled to be renovated in the next 10 years to accommodate such new procedures and technology.
	www.northeastsurgicalcare.com /about/eagle_tribune.htm (943 words)

	Operating rooms of the near future: fewer wires, more information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		During the operation he constantly monitors the patient - heart rate, blood pressure and a whole host of other body functions are read off on various devices.
		In the operating theatre there are various sources of interference that have to be eliminated.
		During the operation the surgeon can gain speech-controlled insight into the steps to be taken in, for instance, unexpected complications.
	www.hoise.com /vmw/05/articles/vmw/LV-VM-07-05-27.html (1023 words)

	Orthopaedic Surgery Unveils New Digital Operating Rooms News Story, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, ...
		The new operating rooms' voice-activated and digital surgical equipment reduces operating room time and increases the surgical team's efficiency and control of the overall operating room.
		With an adjoining observation room and simulation laboratory that are both linked to the operating rooms by sophisticated image routing technology, the new suite also provides state-of-the-art training and education for orthopaedic surgery residents and fellows.
		In this room, visitors stay out of the immediate operating room area, but can view the surgery on monitors and communicate with the surgical team through intercoms.
	www.upmc.com /NewsStories/2002/SportsMedDigitalOR1210.htm (834 words)

	The Bryan-College Station Eagle > Business & Technology > Technology
		The new rooms are equipped with plasma-screen monitors, which are suspended from the ceiling to maximize floor space, and green lights to help doctors see monitors more clearly and for use during surgeries that require a darker room.
		The new digitally integrated operating rooms feature technologies that doctors say will make their jobs easier and ultimately will be better for patients, mainly for minimally invasive surgeries.
		In older operating rooms, it is typical to see a mess of cords, wires and tubes across the floor as different equipment must be carted in for each surgery.
	www.theeagle.com /businesstechnology/050805stjoseph.php (660 words)

	Special Cooling System Designs - Hospital Operating Rooms
		Hospital operating rooms and surgical suites might almost be considered clean rooms.
		Operating theaters are typically not in use more than 8 to 12 hours per day, except in emergencies, and there should be a provision to reduce airflow when it is unoccupied.
		A separate and dedicated air-cooled refrigeration facility able to perform in low-ambient temperature conditions is recommended since operating rooms operate year round, often at odd hours, and with emergency power.
	tristate.apogee.net /cool/csch.asp (362 words)

	Education at Pennsylvania Hospital: Graduate - Professional Environment
		With 31 operating rooms, Pennsylvania Hospital is a major surgical facility in Philadelphia, where physicians perform over 18,000 operations each year.
		Each of the 14 operating rooms in the hospital's inpatient surgery suite includes laser capabilities, four have overhead built-in microscopes for microsurgery and eight have laminar flow hoods for orthopaedic surgery.
		Open heart operating rooms, a recovery/ intensive care unit and an angioplasty room are adjacent to special care patient rooms, catheterization laboratories, a cardiac intensive care unit and support facilities.
	www.uphs.upenn.edu /pahedu/gme/professional.html (815 words)

	NBC 17 - Health & Fitness - Hospital Unveils New Digital Operating Rooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Even unused, a traditional operating room at the hospital is crammed with equipment.
		In the hospital rooms, high magnification cameras and flat-panel monitors are everywhere.
		All 12 rooms are identical and wired with microphones and speakers instead of telephones.
	www.nbc17.com /health/9241970/detail.html?rss=tri&psp=news (382 words)

	Telerobotic Camera System for Operating Rooms - Customer Solutions - National Instruments
		Creating a remotely controlled video camera to monitor operating room procedures when the position of the patient, surgical lamps, and surgeon change during the procedures.
		Instead of using surgical room amphitheatres or live video produced by a video crew, surgeons often employ fixed cameras installed throughout an operating room to record surgical procedures.
		The camera manipulator was mounted directly to the ceiling of the operating room, eliminating the need to modify the current surgical lamp installation.
	sine.ni.com /csol/cds/item/vw/p/id/394/nid/124300 (808 words)

	Construction prompts shutdown of NCH operating rooms \| BonitaNews.com
		At issue was drywall damage that had to be repaired in a new operating room being built at on the back end of the hospital and having to clear out construction dust as well as having the three existing operating rooms cleaned and sterilized, said Gail Dolan, vice president of outpatient and ambulatory services.
		One of three operating rooms is available for emergency surgery if necessary and a minor emergency surgery did occur this morning, she said.
		Inspectors with the state Agency for Healthcare Administration spotted the damaged drywall in the new operating room, yet to be used, when they were at the hospital Thursday afternoon for a routine inspection.
	www.bonitanews.com /news/2006/aug/28/construction_prompts_shutdown_nch_operating_rooms (407 words)

	U.Va. Top News Daily
		November 11, 2004 -- Fourteen new, state-of-the art operating rooms are opening at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
		Once the operating rooms are being used in mid-November, a sterile environment will be created limiting the opportunities for press and public access.
		The new operating rooms, located in the facility’s newly created wing, are 13,000 square feet of new floor space containing 21st Century technology.
	www.virginia.edu /topnews/11_11_2004/operating_rooms.html (347 words)

	On cutting edge of surgery
		Although most hospitals have much of this equipment, in most operating rooms, carts are needed to hold it.
		The hospital is the only one in Arizona that has fully integrated, all-digital operating rooms with voice activation, image-guided surgery and digital imaging from physician offices, officials there said.
		There is no need to leave the operation room to fetch files or X-rays because they will all be stored in computer systems.
	azcentral.com /community/westvalley/articles/0415WVoperating0415Z1.html (536 words)

	Parkland Hospital - Medical Services
		The suite has 18 rooms for elective, urgent and emergent procedures.
		the hallway to the operating room is lined with residents and staff gathering for the morning report, a time to communicate about the changes and needs for the coming day.
		Throughout the rest of the day a number of patients are taken into operating rooms and brought out to recovery rooms.
	www.parklandhospital.com /medical_services/traumaSurg_operating.html (144 words)

	salle (d'opération) conventionnelle - conventional (operating room) (French to English translation glossary) Medical: ...
		I think that "salle conventionnelle" is the short way of saying a room with conventional ventilation (as opposed to more sophisticated forms of ventilation), usually an operating room.
		I have seen "conventional operating room" on the net.
		If this is not a type of operating room then it is a meeting or conference room.
	www.proz.com /kudoz/992937 (247 words)

	Operating theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An operating theatre or operating room is a room within a hospital within which surgical operations are carried out.
		Operating theatres were so-called in the United Kingdom because they traditionally consisted of semi-circular amphitheatres to allow students to observe the medical procedures.
		The Old Operating Theatre in London is one of the oldest, dating back to 1822.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operating_theatre (154 words)

	Ergonomics And Operating Rooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		There are a wide variety of choices when looking to find the perfect home office ergonomics and operating rooms.
		For instance there are Ergo Flex ergonomics and operating rooms, Comfort Track 35 PM, Evolution Desktop, Pace ergonomics and operating rooms and so forth.
		portable ergonomic keyboard for notebook computers For this reason, it is important that office desk ergonomics and operating rooms offer excellent lumbar support and aid in maintaining proper sitting posture while working.
	www.bestergonomic-keyboard.com /ergonomics-and-operating-rooms.html (260 words)

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