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Design of Operating rooms department is one of the most complicated tasks of hospital design due to its characteristics and requirements. Patients, staff and tools should have determined passes through operating suite. Many hospitals assume that operating suite is the most important unit in hospital for its high–revenue. Arch Design of these suites is a very critical point to solve an optimized problem in spaces, work flow of clean, dirty and patient in/out in addition to staff together with their relations with adjacent departments. In this study, we will illustrate the most common designs of operating suites and select the most suitable one which satisfy the effectiveness of the operating suite, maximizing throughput, minimizing the costs of necessary, and decreasing the required spaces related to available resources/possibilities. The design should comply with country guidelines, infection control rules, occupational safety and health, and satisfy the maximum befits for patients and staff. A comparative study has been performed on fifteen hospitals and it has been recorded that single input- output technique is the best design.
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Ahmed, K.S. (2017). Medical Planning: Operating Theatre Design and Its Impact on Cost, Area and Workflow. In: Rojas, I., Ortuño, F. (eds) Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering. IWBBIO 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10208. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56148-6_28
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