Operating rooms at Amarjyothi Nursing Home are spacious, clean and well-lit and have overhead surgical lights, viewing screens and monitors. The operating suite is climate and air controlled and is separated from other departments so that only authorized personnel to have access.
Features:
- Controlled temperature and humidity
- Special air handlers filter the air and elevated pressure
- Electricity support has backup systems in case of a black-out
- Rooms are supplied with suction oxygen and other anesthetic gases
- ODPs (operating department practitioners) and trained nurses are present prior to surgery
- Guidelines are provided for the preoperative, operative and post-operative processes that should be adhered to in order to improve the safety of patients undergoing surgical procedures. All healthcare workers especially those working closely with operation theatres are mandated to adhere strictly to the guidelines to ensure the safety of all surgical procedures at all times.
Key equipment provided in the operation theatre is the following:-
- Operating table in the room that can be raised, lowered and tilted in any direction
- Operating room lights are over the table to provide bright light, without shadows, during surgery
- Anesthesia machine is at the operating table and it has tubes that connect to the patient to assist in breathing during surgery and built-in monitors that help control the mixture of gases in the breathing circuit. It contains the medications, equipment and other supplies that the anesthesiologist may need
- An electronic monitor that records the heart rate and respiratory rate
- The pulse oximeter machine that measures the amount of oxygen contained in the blood
- The heart-lung machine takes the temporary control of the heart and lung during the surgery maintaining the circulation of blood and oxygen content of the body
- Automated blood pressure measuring machine that automatically inflates the blood pressure cuff on patient's arm
- An electrocautery machine uses high-frequency electrical signals to cauterize or seal off blood vessels and may also be used to cut through tissue with a minimal amount of bleeding
- Tables set up to store stainless steel sterilized instruments
- Storage space for common surgical supplies
- Containers for disposables