INFORMATION MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY
One of the well-equipped theatres.
mounted, achieving smooth, continuous, and easy-to-clean surfaces in all panels.
Hospital Alemán’s surgical floor With cutting-edge technology, a modern surgical facility has been designed and built, with a pleasant and comfortable ambience. The distribution of the physical plant
responds to a surgical equipment model that AFS has been implementing since 1980 – with good results. It proposes a graduation of spaces that go from a series of support and transfer rooms to a ‘clean’ circulation area for patients and doctors, up to the entrance of the operating theatres organised around the clean core. This graduation of spaces is accompanied by a corresponding cascade of air- conditioning pressures. The surgical floor contains three distinct
areas: n Perimeter circulation and support areas, where surgical beds circulate.
n Surgical rooms, where operations are performed.
n Clean core, restricted space for pharmacy and instrument management.
Construction technologies This new surgical floor is one of the most modern treatment facilities in Buenos Aires. Its patients enjoy optimum medical treatment in a sophisticated environment, which also benefits the staff of the facility. A successful operation requires perfect
conditions that protect the patient and allow the medical team to concentrate exclusively on the procedure. Surgeries always involve working in an open human body, so the highest priority – keeping the risk of infection to an absolute minimum – requires an an operating room equipped and fitted out to the highest standard. The integrated technology within the operating theatres is located in control panels so that the medical team can easily visualise the operation of all the equipment and applications.
The perimeter circulation area for the theatres. The innovative OR (operating room)
data integration solution adapts to user needs. The focus is on improving working processes and efficiency, together with future-orientated technologies. Integration systems facilitate centralised medical device control from the sterile and non-sterile areas of the operating room. These controls allow the management of audio and video in 4K quality, providing high definition streaming and communication by video conference. The system allows users to record, edit, manage, and consult images and videos centrally. The screens are installed behind glass panels, facilitating cleaning and promoting hygiene. The system allows the centralising of
generated content throughout the patient journey, while the integration system gives doctors and other personnel an overview of everything that happens in the operating theatre. Information on theatre occupancy, as well as the status of all operating rooms, through interfaces compatible with the existing hospital systems, guarantees data protection and security. The system allows users also to control air pressure, lights, and all automated parameters via a control panel located at the OR entrance. Depending on the given requirements, both sliding and swing doors were installed to provide access to the ‘cores’. The individualised door control system with touchless sensor operation was integrated into the services housed within the ceilings, floors, and partitions. The walls also feature viewing and blackout functions, and various outlets for the theatres.
Energy efficiency Through the modernisation of operating theatres, more environmentally friendly operations have been achieved. Operating theatres are traditionally the
A modular theatre incorporating information management technology.
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The ‘clean’ core area, fitted with a Pyxis medication and supply management system.
areas with the highest concentration of devices and the highest energy consumption in the entire hospital. They require constant ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, and medical
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