Operating room design: "the devil is in the details".
Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: No perfect operating room (OR) exists and many, if not most, surgeons have complained about their workplace at one time or another. But just imagine if you had complete control over the design of your operating room and could fashion it as you pleased. What would you change? Where would you begin? Certainly, many surgical salespersons would like to sell their product, but would that product be right for the patient, right for you the surgeon, right for the nurses, right for administration, and right for the payers who ultimately fund hospital activities? Importantly, does the OR design change represent your needs, or, in fact, does that change represent your wants? Philosophizing about what represents an optimal operating room turns out to be easier than actually designing one. In reality, it is not just the surgeon who is concerned
Source: PubMed Central
Author: M S Kavic
Language: English
Subfield: Architecture
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2282556093