Abstract :
Background: A facility within a hospital where surgical operations are carried out in
a sterile environment is an operating theatre also known as an operating suite, operation
theatre or operation suite. In past, the operation theatre was a place where there was an educational
setting have had raised tables or chairs at the centre for performing operations surrounded by
several rows of seats for students and other spectators to observe the case in progress. The objective
of this research is that to better the efficacy of sterilization of operation theatre to reduce the
surgical site infection and contamination at highest level.
Methodology: Data was collected from surgical department of Gulab Devi Chest Hospital.
Carbolization was employed to disinfect operating room and fumigation to sterilize. After
neutralization with ammonia, culture swabs were collected from OT table, OT light, OT floor, OT
wall, anaesthesia machine and OT trolley. Efficacy of fumigation was concluded using statistical
tools.
Results: There were no positive results prior and even after the fumigation.
Conclusion: There was no organism growth in OT. There was no evidence of Escherichia coli,
Proteus Mirabilis, Proteus vulgaris, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus,
Streptococcus spp., E. faecalis, Coagulase negative staph and Salmonella choleraesius.
Keyword :
Operation theatre, fumigation, carbolization, nosocomial infection, sterilization, neutralization