Background and Objectives: Fire is an inherent and permanent risk in the operating room and the prevention of it in the operating room require awareness of risks and effective communication between its staffs. Thus the purpose of this study is to determine the awareness and the practice of the operating room staff about fire prevention and to determine the effectiveness of safe...

This article describes the author’s experience of using TEX for typesetting the Anaesthesia Record as part of an automated data-collection system developed for use in the operating theatre.

Imagine a black and white photograph. The date is 1957. The setting is an operating room at a Baltimore hospital. There is no operating table and a man lies on the floor. The man, a volunteer, is pharmacologically paralyzed and sedated. Several people are gathered around the room, some doctors, several boy scouts and other people from the community. Everyone's attention is focused on one of the...

In this paper I will describe my findings from studying during last year the use of information technology in operating theatres. Based on these findings I will present focus shift analysis as a method for analyzing complex interaction, and discuss how the use of speech commands within the operating theatre are able to address some of the breakdown found with the focus shift analysis.

OBJECTIVE To study pediatric direct laryngoscopy and bronchoscopy operative flow. DESIGN Observational quality improvement initiative. SETTING Two freestanding tertiary care children's hospitals. PATIENTS Pediatric patients undergoing direct laryngoscopy and bronchoscopy. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Trained medical students observed direct laryngoscopy and bronchoscopy operative flow. An audi...

Background: Objective Structural clinical evaluation (OSCE) is newly emerging methods that has been used in recent years the medical and paramedical fields. However, one of its disadvantages it causes anxiety, which, turn, reduces effectiveness test. Therefore, main purpose present study was to evaluate OSCE test familiarity workshop on anxiety anesthesia students operating room Ilam University...

Effect of Blended Learning on Educational Outcome Discontinuous Undergraduate Students Operating Room