Atmospheric pollution with trichloroethylene in operating theatres

Aspergillus Air Pollution in Operating Theatres

Aim of this paper is to present the results of a survey, performed in a teaching hospital of Rome, in order to evaluate the fungal air pollution of operating theatres (OTs) in which also high risk patients underwent an operation. The study was performed in 14 OTs. In each OT, 9 air samples were collected, using an active sampler SAS-PBI. Rodac plates with Sabouraud cloramphenicol and nutrient a...

Atmospheric Pollution in Cardiac Operating Rooms

391 The ecological footprint of healthcare is enormous.[1] Almost 10% of the United States’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are contributed by healthcare.[2,3] More than a third of all hospital waste are generated during the perioperative period and surgical care. Inhaled anesthetics account for 2.5% of the GHG emissions attributed to the National Health Service of the United Kingdom.[1] In 2014...

Decision-making in operating theatres

Ensuring cleanliness in operating theatres.

High cleanliness of a hospital environment is necessary to ensure safe working conditions for the medical staff, a correct process of hospitalization and to protect hospital visitors, an aspect rarely mentioned. A supply of air cleaned in highly-effective air filters to hospital wards with air conditioning systems and exhaust of infected air will help in maintaining the required standards of cl...

Fire and explosion hazards in operating theatres.

A high degree of safety from fires and explosions exists in operating theatres in the U.K. and this is reflected in the extremely low number of fatal and non-fatal accidents which occur. This has been achieved by safety precautions which in some respects have been over-careful and overexpensive. Antistatic precautions applied to the breathing circuit seem to have been the crucial factor in achi...