Design and Maintenance of Operating Room Air Conditioning and Ventilating Systems as Reported by Hospital Maintenance Engineers

VARIOUS references in medical and hos- pital literature to the operating room air environment as one factor in noso- comial infections led the Committee on Hospital Facilities to initiate two distinct but related surveys in mid-1960 on the design and maintenance of operating room air conditioning and ventilation systems. The two groups of survey re- spondents were hospital maintenance engineers and hospital air conditioning design engineers. Both survey ques- tionnaires were sufficiently broad to elicit information on maintenance and design engineering practices which might have some significance in regard to the sani- tary quality of the air supplied to surgery, as well as the quality of the ambient air in surgery

Air conditioning · Operations management · Preventive maintenance · Reliability engineering · Engineering · Mechanical Engineering · Quality and Safety in Healthcare