Theatre service centre : report of the Theatre Service Centre Committee on an experiment carried out in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh during 1964-65 on the design, equipment, and organization of a theatre service centre.
- Scotland. South-Eastern Regional Hospital Board. Theatre Service Centre Committee.
- Date:
- 1965
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Theatre service centre : report of the Theatre Service Centre Committee on an experiment carried out in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh during 1964-65 on the design, equipment, and organization of a theatre service centre. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![TABLE 3 NUMBER OF OPERATIONS AND TRAYS PER MONTH Elective Emergency Total Month | Se oa) Trays | Trays | Trays Operations | Used | Operations | Used | Operations | Used August . ; 33 a2 11 13 44 65 September. 85 148 58 BiH 128 | 185 October. 112 189 48 52 160 | 241 November. 119 195 1 78 Outer coe December 132 235 85 93 pi em ages January . 203 303 121 140 3246 tlt, 440 Total. 684 feh22 374 413 1,058 1,535 TABLE 4 RATIO OF TRAYS PER OPERATION Month Elective Emergency | All Operations August . : : : 57 1-18 1-48 September : : : : 1-74 1-00 1-50 October . ‘ ' : 1-70 1-08 1-50 November ‘ : : : 1-64 1-10 1-44 December a is ; ; 1-79 1-09 1-5] January . : : : : 1-49 1-16 fay Average, 6 months . 1-65 eae 1-45 75. Based on the figures given in Table 3, the average number of trays per operation is shown in Table 4. 76. The progressive increase in the use of individual trays on a monthly basis over the six-month period is given in Appendix 6. 77. The tray service for the three theatres became comprehensive towards the end of December 1964. It was decided to make a study of the number and nature of elective and emergency operations during the month of January 1965 in relation to the number of trays used for each type of operation; the detailed analysis of this study is given in Appendix 7, and a summary of the analysis is shown in Table 5. It is interesting to note that 101 supplementary instrument packs and 46 special instrument packs were used during elective sessions, but that only eight supplementary instrument packs and no special instrument packs were used during emergency sessions.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32183045_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
