Evacuating surgical smoke in the operating room protects patients and perioperative teams from hazards associated with inhaling smoke. States have passed bills mandating health care facilities ambulatory surgery centers adopt policies to evacuate We use a 5-step process for identifying options reduce exposure harmful toxins found recommend executive nurse leaders collaborate states professional...

ABSTRACT Objectives: to evaluate different monitoring methods for detecting the presence of organic or biological matter before and after cleaning disinfection processes operating room. Methods: this is a cross-sectional study based on visual inspection, adenosine triphosphate levels microbiological culture assessment disinfection. Results: 93.3% surfaces inspected visually purpose were conside...

background and purpose: this study aimed to manage medical errors before and after the implementation of accreditation in public, private, and social security hospitals of mazandaran, iran. materials and methods: this descriptive study has been done in 38 hospitals. data were collected through documents reviewed relating to 2013 and 2014. the paired t-test and friedman test were used by statist...

Operating room scheduling is an important task in healthcare sector. This study proposes a Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) mathematical model for the scheduling of the operating rooms. In the presented model, apart from scheduling the patients’ surgery process, shifting of the medical staff is also carried out. The innovation considered in the proposed model is aimed at prioritizing...

Introduction: An operating theatre (OT) is a very complex setup, which presents numerous challenges for both patients and health care providers. A safe OT environment decreases the susceptibility of to postoperative infections. Therefore, study was conducted determine microbiological air quality establishing baseline values assess concurrently effect behavioural factors in 46 OTs tertiary hospi...