THERE IS QUIET FOR OPERATIONS

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28987, 31 August 1959, Page 7 (Supplement)

THERE IS QUIET FOR OPERATIONS

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The chip-marble floors are specially constructed to eliminate static electricity, while the ceilings are plastered, and painted in a soft shade of green.

The intricate lighting equipment gives a shadowless light from nine portholes in a concave saucer measuring some sft across, which also contains a built-in camera.

It can be placed in any position over the modern, fully - adjustable operating table.

Beside each theatre is a tiled scrub-up room for the surgeon and the theatre staff. In the interests of asepsis it has no basins or plugs. Water gushes on to the surgeon’s hands and down a sloping glass plate to a drain on the floor below.

Above the water faucets is a window at eye-level, so that the surgeon need not take his eyes off the patient—in case there is a sudden relapse or other emergency as he is preparing for the operation, or washing his hands afterwards.

Surgeons, sisters, and other operating-theatre staff have their changing rooms on the floor above.

Patients will be brought from the surgical wards — which are on the same floor, and then one below —and prepared for their operations in the anaesthetic room attached

to each theatre. From there they will be wheeled into the theatre itself.

After operations, patients will be placed under observation in a six-bed recovery room in the theatre block.

Here they will stay for an hour, or perhaps for a day, if the operation has been particularly long or serious. The operating theatres have their own sterilisation room, where instruments used by the surgeons and the 'theatre staff will be handlei

The hospitals’ central sterilisation department is nearby, on the same floor. • • -