Operating theater
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An operating theater is a facility within a hospital where surgical operations are carried out in an aseptic environment.
Inside a modern operating room
Hybrid operating room for cardiovascular surgery at Gemelli Hospital in Rome
The Agnew Clinic, 1889, by Thomas Eakins, showing the tiered arrangement of observers watching the operation.
An operating room in the United States, c. 1960; heart–lung machine with rotating disc oxygenator shown
Asepsis
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Asepsis is the state of being free from disease-causing micro-organisms. There are two categories of asepsis: medical and surgical. The modern day notion of asepsis is derived from the older antisepti
Operating theater
…operating room or OR, as well as an operating suite or operation suite) is a facility within a hospital where surgical operations are carried out in an aseptic environment. Historically, the term operating theater referred to a non-sterile, tiered theater or amphitheater in which students and other spectators…
Hand scrubbing procedure for surgery
William Stewart Halsted
Packaged, sterilized surgical instruments
Medical illustration of Staphylococcus