Abstract
The maintenance of the air cleanliness is an important problem in surgical operating rooms of hospitals. Although the cleanliness is affected by air conditioning system as well as using conditions of the rooms, the engineering designers have few informations of the using conditions by nurses. The purpose of this study is to find the fact and problems in operating rooms and division in educational and semi-educational hospitals (400-1280 beds) with questionaires on nurses. This results will feed back to planners as well as engineering designers. The investigation was done in 1988 and 100 nurses in 55 hospitals made the answers. The following matters are investigated ; 1) the using condition of a operating room where a relatively long operation was done, and 2) problems of spaces and housekeepings in the division of operation. The results are as follows : (1) Under using condition, operating rooms have a great number of door opening/closing. Its rates (4.8 to 15.7 per hour) have tendencies of decreasing with operating time and increasing with numbers of occupant. (2) About the environmental problems in operation rooms, it is pointed that thermal problem is induced by the differrence of thermal balance among patient and doctors/nurses. (3) As to the spaces, almost all rooms have become small because of a lack of storage spaces for medical equipments. (4) Regarding to the housekeeping of operating rooms, it is desired that the better cleaning methods and systems will be developped.
