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Ten-Year Evaluation of Thermal Comfort in Operating Rooms. [PDF]

Healthcare (Basel), 2022
The microclimate is a particularly important environmental aspect in operating rooms (ORs), where more than in other hospital environments, it is extremely important, and at the same time extremely difficult, to reconcile the needs of different types of ...
Deiana G, Arghittu A, Dettori M, Deriu MG, Palmieri A, Azara A, Castiglia P, Masia MD.   +7 more
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Investigating surgical smoke in otolaryngology operating rooms. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2022
Surgical smoke is a common chemical hazard produced from the use of electrocautery, laser, or ultrasonic scalpels during surgery. It has been proved harmful to medical personnel.
Li CI, Chou YH, Pai JY, Chen CH, Chiang MC.   +4 more
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Sustainability in surgical practice: a collaborative call toward environmental sustainability in operating rooms. [PDF]

Surg Endosc
The healthcare system plays a pivotal role in environmental sustainability, and the operating room (OR) significantly contributes to its overall carbon footprint.
Johnson SM, Marconi S, Sanchez-Casalongue M, Francis N, Huo B, Alseidi A, Alimi YR, Pietrabissa A, Arezzo A, Frountzas M, Bellato V, Potapov O, Barach P, Rems M, Bello RJ, Nijhawan S, Oslock WM, Sathe TS, Hall RP, Miller B, Samreen S, Chung J, Marfo N, Lim RB, Vandeberg J, Eussen MM, Bouvy ND, Sylla P.   +27 more
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Robotic Technology in Operating Rooms: a Review. [PDF]

Curr Robot Rep, 2021
With the rapid growth and development of robotic technology, its implementation in medical fields has also been significantly increasing, with the transition from the period of mainly using surgical robots to the era with combinations of multiple types ...
Sun X, Okamoto J, Masamune K, Muragaki Y.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Scheduling of Anaesthesia Operations in Operating Rooms. [PDF]

Healthcare (Basel), 2021
This paper considers scheduling of surgical operations across multiple operating rooms subject to the limited availability of anaesthetists. The objective is to construct a feasible operations schedule that has the minimum makespan, i.e., the completion ...
Hsu PY, Lo SH, Hwang HG, Lin BMT.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Challenges and prerequisites of risk management program in the operating rooms of Iranian hospitals: A qualitative study [PDF]

Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2023
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) considers a safe operating room as one of the necessities of hospitals that support patients. Achieving safety in surgical operations in all countries of the world is the basic goal of healthcare centers ...
Akbar Javan Biparva, Raana Gholamzadeh Nikjoo, Ali Jannati, Mohammad Arab, Ali Ostadi   +4 more
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Surgical counting interruptions in operating rooms [PDF]

BMC Nursing
Background Operating rooms are complex working environments with high workloads and high levels of cognitive demand. The first surgical count which occurs during the chaotic preoperative stage and is considered a critical phase, is a routine task in ORs.
Zhi Lujun, Gao Yuan, Wang Wei
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Adaptation of Surgical Activity Recognition Models Across Operating Rooms [PDF]

International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2022
. Automatic surgical activity recognition enables more intelli-gent surgical devices and a more efficient workflow. Integration of such technology in new operating rooms has the potential to improve care delivery to patients and decrease costs. Recent works
A. Mottaghi, Aidean Sharghi, Serena Yeung, O. Mohareri   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comparative life cycle assessment of reusable and disposable scrub suits used in hospital operating rooms

Cleaner Environmental Systems, 2021
Alexis Burguburu, Christèle Tanné, Kevin Bosc, Justine Laplaud, Melina Roth, Magdalena M. Czyrnek-Delêtre   +5 more
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A New Extended Approach to Reduce Admission Time in Hospital Operating Rooms Based on the FMEA Method in an Uncertain Environment

Journal of Soft Computing and Decision Analytics, 2023
Operating rooms (ORs) are one of the essential hospital resources and optimal management can result in efficient OR usage. The admission time reduction before surgery in the ORs can lead to on-time surgery and efficient use of ORs.
Nazli Ghanbari Ghoushchi, Koohyar Ahmadzadeh, S. J. Ghoushchi   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source