Types of Hospital Operating Room Equipment
Hospital operating rooms are equipped with a wide range of devices, from basic equipment to high-tech assistive devices, to ensure safe, efficient, and smooth surgical procedures. Here are some of the major categories of operating room equipment:
- Basic Surgical Equipment:
- Operating Tables: Provide a stable and comfortable platform for doctors and patients, with adjustable height and angles to accommodate different surgical needs.
- Surgical Instruments: Include knives, scissors, forceps, needles, and other surgical tools that require regular cleaning, disinfection, and maintenance.
- Lighting Systems: Require bright and even illumination with adjustable brightness to suit various surgical requirements.
- High-Tech Assistive Devices:
- Electrosurgical Units (ESUs): Replace mechanical surgical knives for tissue cutting, widely used in open and laparoscopic surgeries.
- Laparoscopes: Comprise camera systems, light sources, monitors, insufflators, cameras, and optical tubes, enabling minimally invasive surgeries with smaller incisions, less pain, and faster recovery.
- Anesthesia Equipment: Includes anesthesia machines, monitors, ventilators, etc., for administering general anesthesia, local anesthesia, nerve blocks, and other types of anesthesia.
- Imaging Equipment: Such as X-ray machines, CT scanners, and ultrasound machines, used for assisting diagnosis and surgical operations.
- Environmental Control Equipment:
- Operating Room Central Control Panels: Display surgical time, Beijing time, anesthesia time, adjust humidity and temperature within the operating room, and facilitate phone communication.
- Laminar Flow Systems: Maintain a sterile environment in the operating room to ensure surgical safety.
- Air Conditioning and Ventilation Systems: Keep constant temperature and humidity, effectively eliminate harmful gases and smoke, and ensure a comfortable and high-quality air environment for surgeries.
- Information and Intelligent Equipment:
- Digital Information Integration Technology: Integrates medicine, industrial control, communications, digital, and other systems to digitize patient information collection, processing, storage, transmission, and sharing, enhancing operating room efficiency and medical service quality.
- Internet of Things (IoT) Technology: Enables remote monitoring and management of equipment, improving operating room operational efficiency and safety.
Advantages of Integrators
VITUS medica plays a crucial role in the construction and operation of hospital operating rooms, offering the following advantages:
- Professional Planning and Design: Integrators can provide professional planning and design solutions tailored to the hospital's specific needs and conditions, ensuring a rational layout and comprehensive functionality of the operating room.
- One-Stop Solution: Integrators offer a comprehensive solution encompassing equipment selection, procurement, installation, debugging, and post-maintenance, reducing the hospital's workload during operating room construction and enhancing efficiency.
- Technical Support and Training: Integrators possess dedicated technical teams that provide technical support and training services to ensure medical staff can proficiently operate the equipment.
- System Integration and Optimization: Integrators integrate and optimize various operating room equipment and systems, enabling interconnectivity and resource sharing among devices, enhancing the overall operating efficiency and safety of the operating room.
- Continuous Upgrade and Update: As medical technology evolves, operating room equipment also undergoes constant upgrades. Integrators can provide upgrade and update services according to the hospital's needs and market changes, ensuring the operating room remains at the forefront of the industry.
With an average of more than 10 years of medical industry experience, Vitus team is able to work with overseas partners to create healthcare integration services that are more advantageous to the industry.
