An operating room that adopts certain air cleanliness measures and reaches certain bacterial concentration and air cleanliness classes.

Clean operating department

A self-contained functional area composed of clean operating rooms and auxiliary rooms.

[Reference] People strive to control the aseptic space of operating rooms so as to effectively avoid the harm of microorganisms and prevent postoperative infections. The era of achieving aseptic control solely by chemical disinfection has passed; it has been fully recognized that the effectiveness of chemical disinfection is limited and that it is harmful to people and to the environment. Comprehensive safeguard measures centered on biological clean technology have become an irreplaceable and effective means for the modern aseptic operating room. In this sense, the clean operating department is the aseptic operating room in the modern sense.

[Reference] The proposal of the concept of the clean operating department marks the development of the concept of single-room control into area control. It reflects the combination of hygiene and engineering, modern medical architecture, and clean air-conditioning technology, and is the product of multidisciplinary, comprehensive technologies including air cleaning technology, medical aseptic technology, hospital management science, and architectural design.

[Reference] The clean operating department must be formed by the coordination and support of multiple disciplines, including architecture, basic equipment, air conditioning and purification, medical gases, water, and electricity, with the contents of every stage—design, construction, testing, and acceptance—fully implemented; in addition, it also needs to be compatible with this Only with corresponding scientific and reasonable measures for operation and management can the clean operating department be fully embodied as an integrated whole, and the comprehensive support system of the operating department be effectively realized.