INTRODUCTION A second cycle audit to evaluate the results after introduction of water impervious surgical gowns and drapes while performing Austin-Moore hemiarthroplasty as recommended by our previously published study. AIM To assess the difference in the re-operation rate following Austin-Moore hemiarthroplasty between procedures performed under laminar air-flow to those performed in convent...

BACKGROUND Despite dedicated emergency theatre, emergency surgery can be often delayed due to competing urgencies, suggesting a need for innovative theatre time management. AIM To investigate if a change in the emergency theatre prioritisation affects outcomes for a common urgent operation such as appendicectomy. METHODS We prospectively recorded data from 67 patients undergoing appendicect...

BACKGROUND To study the effect of administration of tranexamic acid on the use of blood and blood products, return to theatre for post-operative bleeding and the length of intensive care stay after primary cardiac surgery, data for 4191 patients, of all priorities, who underwent primary cardiac operation during the period between 30/10/00 and 21/09/04 were analysed. METHODS Retrospective anal...

Operation Theatre (OT) is the most important area where precise controlled on indoor air quality is required because it is directly related to patient health and its recovery period. This work aims to study and visualize the airflow distribution of conventional flat air diffuser ventilation system and newly designed angular air ventilation system in OT. Angular Air Distribution (AAD) system is ...

Image registration is an important aspect in all computer assisted orthopaedic surgery (CAOS). It is a process of developing a spatial relationship between pre-operative data, such as Computed Tomography (CT) scans or Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans and the physical patient in the operation theatre. Current image registration techniques for CAOS in minimally invasive Unicompartmental Kne...

The advantages of the benzodiazpines as oral premedicants are: clear anxiolytic and sedative effect; less clear amnesic action which may prevent the recall of the time spent lying on an uncomfortable theatre trolley, but not necessarily recall of the journey to the operating theatre, or induction of anaesthesia; convenient route of administration; long duration of action of 5-8 h which simplifi...

coniditions. wher-e the newly trained nurse may suddenly be faced with the task of "setting-out" for an operation. To the probationer about to enter the 'bewvildering world' of the theatre, this little volume will prove a useful guide. The elementary duties, a knowledge of which is so essential to the smooth running of the theatre, are explicity and simply set forth. Theatre sisters, and those ...

was manipulated to relieve pressure on the skin over the dorsum of the foot, and a plaster-of-paris cast padded with sterilised cotton-wool was applied in the casualty-theatre, which is on the ground floor. Operation.-Next day he was operated on in theatre 1 of the main theatre suite (see figure). The skin of the ankle was incised, a large butterfly fragment of the fibula was wired, the torn jo...

Two hundred and seventeen total hip replacements were performed during a trial designed to assess the influence of a surgical isolator upon postoperative wound infection. The trial was controlled by performing 108 of the replacements in a standard plenumventilated theatre with twenty air changes/hr, which also housed the isolator procedures. Comparative postoperative wound infection rates were ...