Is named operating room To that room or room that is in sanatoriums, hospitals or medical care centers and that is specially equipped for the practice of surgical operations to those patients who demand it. Likewise, in the operating room, other related activities can be carried out, such as: the supply of anesthesia, a resuscitation action, among others, in order to then be able to carry out the aforementioned surgical intervention.
The basic objective proposed by an operating room is to be at the height 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 to act to save an individual's life, for example.
Regarding the demands and conditions that an operating room must observe in order to satisfactorily fulfill its mission, they include: 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 must be minimal, it must only allow access to the patient, to the interdisciplinary team that usually works in an operation: surgeon, anesthetist, radiologist, gastroenterologist, operating room nurse, nursing assistant, orderly, surgical instrumenter, among others; and cleanliness and aspiration to achieve a zero degree of contamination is another sine quanom condition that must be observed in the operating room and adjoining rooms that have been annexed (changing rooms, offices); This will be achieved by limiting the access of people to what is necessary, carrying out deep cleaning and disinsection several times a day and removing all the waste material.
