Design of OT

Types of Operating Theatres

The Operating List

Checking of Instruments, Swabs and Needles

Keeping of Reports

Central Sterile Service Department

Different methods of sterilisation

Preoperative Care

Receiving patients in OT

Monitoring and recording the physiological status during Anaesthesia and Surgery

Monitoring and Recording of the Patient’s post-anaesthetic Status

Aseptic conduct in OT

Suture materials & count, suturing procedure

Swabs, Needle and Instrument Counts

Surgical bleeding & Diathermy

Post-operative care

Emergency equipment in OT

Major equipment in OT

Emergency and disaster preparedness plan for the operating theatre

Anaesthetic and other medicines in OT

Intravenous cannulation

Equipment used in hysteroscopy, laparoscopic surgery, episiotomy, caesarean section, common gynaecological operations, spine surgery, thoracotomy