Operating room is the term used to describe a kind of room or room that is found in sanatoriums, hospitals or other health care centers and that is specially adapted to carry out surgical operations on people who require it. Similarly, in the operating room, various related activities can be carried out, such as: the administration of anesthesia, resuscitation procedures, etc. for later, to be able to carry out the surgery successfully. Previously, this word was only applied to those rooms that were designed with a glass which allowed to observe the surgical interventions that were carried out there, however with the passage of thetime the term was applied to any space where various surgeries are performed.
Regarding the minimum requirements and conditions that an operating room must have in order to satisfactorily fulfill its objective, the most important parameters include the following: it must be a closed space; It must be located in an independent place with respect to the rest of the medical center, however, it must always be adjacent to those sensitive areas, such is the case of emergency rooms, the blood bank, laboratories for clinical analysis, pharmacies, among others. On the other hand, in terms of the movement of people, it must be restricted, that is, it must only allow access to the patient in question, to the interdisciplinary team that is usually part of a surgery: among them are surgeons, radiologist, anesthetist, gastroenterologist, operating room nurse, nursing assistant, orderly, instrumenter, among others;
Due to the relevance of the work carried out in operating rooms, it is very important that these spaces have a series of minimum care in terms of hygiene and safety, all with the aim of maintaining the health of the patients who are operated on. surgically. For this reason, those professionals who serve in a hospital or any health center must bear in mind a series of rules which must be followed so that everything is done correctly:
- First of all, the operating room must have signs to indicate that it is operating theaters and that therefore the passage of unauthorized personnel is prohibited.
- As for the walls, they must be smooth so that that way it is much easier to clean them.
- The climate or environment that must exist within the operating rooms, in order to avoid bacteria, must range between 21º and a relative humidity of 50%.
