Operating Theatre Department
Operating department consist of many different rooms each of these rooms has specific activity such as: preparing patients for operation, changing room for medical staff and recovery hall. In addition there are rooms attached to operation hall such as: scrub up, preparation room for sterilization of surgical tools. But mainly the focus will be in the area of the operating theater halls and main rooms in this department as follows:
a) Operating Theatre
The area of the operating theatre depends on the type functional performed on this hall. Therefore the equipment and furniture required and medical staff can be defined. Fig 5 show how the functions and furniture distrusted in the operating theater divided into three zones the middle area have been allocated for the operation table surrounded by surgical staff. The second zone provides enough space for the assistant medical staff to move around it to help the surgical staff to carryout the operation. The third zone is specified area required for medical equipments in the operating theatre. To achieve these functions incase of normal operation the area required is (5.4 * 5.4). Whereas for more complicated operation which require more medical staff than a normal operation the area required for this hall is (5.4 * 7.20).