Equipment Inside an Operating Room

The operating room, sometimes called the OR, is where surgery happens in a hospital. Having surgery can be called having an operation. One kind of surgery is having tubes put in the eardrums to prevent infection in your ears and improve hearing. Someone who gets tonsillitis might need a tonsillectomy. This is when the tonsils are taken out so that you don’t get a infection in your tonsils. This kind of surgery is scheduled ahead of time so you know when to go to the hospital. Surgery might need to be done as soon as possible if someone has something that can’t be fixed with a cast or right away.

There are many different machines and tools in the Operating Room that helps the doctors and nurses with the surgery. One of them is an operating table, it is usually in the center of the room the table is where you lay during surgery it can be raised, lowered, and tilted in lots of different directions to make for the best angle for the surgery. The patient may be connected to multiple different monitors to keep track of their vital signs, such as heart rate or blood pressure. A ventilator or breathing machine is also another machine that helps the doctors and nurses perform your surgery. The machine is located by the head of the operating table. The ventilator breathes for the patient during the surgery by moving oxygen and air in and out of their lungs. If the surgery requires other specialized equipment, it may be brought into the operating room.

There are many kinds of nurses that may be taking care of the many patients in the hospital, one of these is a RN. The RN specializes in Preoperative Nursing practice and performs nursing activities in the different stages of the patient’s surgeries. Based on the Standards and Recommended Pr...

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...ures. A hybrid OR gives surgeons and medical staff the ability to juggle and do multiple different procedures without going between floors . Using a hybrid OR in those multiple different ways provides the patient with greater safety from infection. Because everything can take place in one room surgeries and examinations can be handled in one room without putting a patient in unsafe conditions by moving them around. By keeping them in the same room for the surgery it reduces the risk of infection or something that could go wrong. For example, LUMC's hybrid OR is a single-plane lab, which means it has one permanent fully moveable arm in the surgery room. Physicians, anesthesiologists, technical staff and many others give input on how to design the OR and what equipment was needed to fully provide the best possible operating room for dangerous surgeries on patents.