Seminar 56 -- Evolving Strategies for Environmental Controls in Operating Rooms and Critical Patient Areas

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Health care is requiring more precise environmental temperature and humidity controls. US health care codes and standards involving temperature and humidity requirements in acute care areas are numerous and bewildering. Multiple authorities having jurisdiction require records of continuous conformance to environmental conditions. Concurrently, surgeons are demanding cooler, drier operating room conditions for specialty procedures or surgical team comfort. This seminar provides election criteria of humidification systems, control strategies best practices to meet precise windows for OR temperature and relative humidity, operational cost estimations for some relevant climatic conditions, and recommended operating protocols during humidity control events.

1. Recommendations for Operating Room Protocols in Response to Humidity Control Events< /br> Sandy Renshaw, PE, Kaiser Permanente, San Diego, CA
2. Room-Level Controls for Surgery Spaces< /br> Ryan Soo, Siemens Industries, Inc., Chicago, IL
3. Selecting Optimal Healthcare Humidification Systems< /br> Nicholas Lea, P.Eng, LEED AP BD+C, Condair Ltd., Ottawa, ON, Canada