Surgery Department
The ideal temperature range for a surgery department to maintain proper sterile conditions is between 68°F and 73°F.
What is the recommended temperature range for operating rooms?
This department provides imaging studies like X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs, often with mobile equipment like a C-arm for orthopedic cases.
What is Radiology?
Answer: This equipment is typically found in the decontamination room to help clean surgical instruments before they are sent for sterilization.
What is an Ultrasonic Washer or Washer-Sterilizer?
This area is where sterile surgical procedures are performed and where all personnel must wear masks in addition to surgical attire.
What is the Operating Room (OR)?
Each operating room is equipped with standard items as well as specialized supplies tailored to meet the needs of specific surgical specialties.
What are specialty-specific supplies?
This design organizes operating rooms by surgical specialty, such as neurosurgery or general surgery, and often includes its own clean storage area.
What is the Specialty Grouping Plan?
This area is located near the surgery department and is where patients recover after surgery until it's safe to transfer them to a nursing unit or discharge them.
What is the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)?
This room in the surgery department contains equipment like ultrasonic washers and washer-sterilizers for cleaning contaminated instruments.
What is the Decontamination Room?
This room is a work area located close to the operating room, containing a sink and autoclave for immediate sterilization of instruments if needed during surgery.
What is the Sub-Sterile Room?
This equipment, found in the sub-sterile room, is used for the immediate sterilization of instruments, especially if they become contaminated during surgery.
What is an autoclave?
This plan arranges operating rooms around a clean central area with supplies brought in through a back entrance.
What is the Racetrack Plan?
This area is where patient demographics and health history are reviewed, and testing such as pregnancy tests may be conducted before surgery.
What is Registration?
These areas may include storage rooms for non-sterile instruments and equipment, and personnel must wear scrub suits, head covers, and shoe covers.
What are Semi-Restricted Areas?
These areas are used to store sterile instruments and supplies and are off-limits to anyone not in full surgical attire.
What are Sterile Storage Rooms?
What is the typical size range of an operating room, and why might some require larger spaces?
Operating rooms are typically 400-600 square feet, but some specialties require larger rooms due to advanced technology and equipment.
In this surgery department design, operating rooms are situated along a central corridor, and all traffic enters and exits through a single entrance.
What is the Hotel Plan?
This area in the surgery department is where patients are prepared for surgery, and IV lines and monitoring devices are placed.
What is the Preoperative Holding Area?
This area in the surgery department is used for the assembly of cleaned instruments before they are sent to sterile processing for sterilization.
What is the Assembly Room?
In this area, personnel are required to wear full surgical attire, including masks, and all doors must remain closed to maintain a sterile environment during surgery.
What are Restricted Areas?
All doors to restricted areas must remain closed during surgery to maintain this type of air pressure, which helps prevent contamination.
What is positive air pressure?
These separate storage rooms are used to store large equipment like OR tables and endoscopic carts.
What are storage rooms for large equipment?
This area of the surgery department requires surgical staff to wear scrub suits, head covers, and shoe covers but does not typically have a door separating it from unrestricted areas.
What is the Semi-Restricted Area?
This department handles the final assembly, sterilization, and storage of surgical instruments and supplies, ensuring they are ready for use in the operating room.
What is Central Sterile Supply and Processing (CSPD)?
This area contains essential equipment for sterilizing instruments and is located near the operating room to ensure immediate availability during surgery.
What is the Sub-Sterile Room?
What is the Front Desk ?