Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 22: The Operation Theatres (OTs) of Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences (ASCOMS) & Hospital can be considered as the best in class as it became the first one in the Union Territory of J&K to have installed smoke evacuators in its operation theatres (OTs).
It has also bought the new Anaesthesia Work Station with inbuilt Anaesthesia Gas monitoring and scavenging system. With this new addition, the operation theatres of ASCOMS have become safe for both the healthcare providers as well as the patients as the smoke originating in the operation theatres from the tissue is noxious and harmful to anyone who inhales it pose a potential risk of infection to hospital staff working in OT.
More than 150 different chemical constituents have been identified in the surgical smoke that can cause both acute and chronic health hazards. Evacuator can capture the smoke generated and Anaesthesia machine can scavenge the harmful gases arising from the Anaesthesia procedure so there is removal of smoke as well as the gases from the working area of theatre.
The Smoke Evacuator has a ULPA Filter which captures and filters 99.99% particulates and microorganisms greater than 120 nanometer. The ASCOMS hereby becomes the leader in providing safe surgical environment to the patients as well as to the healthcare working team and is fully equipped and geared up for performing surgeries.
Giving details of the theatre machinery, Dr Pavan Malhotra, Director Principal along with Dr K S Mehta, Prof & Head Department of Surgery and Dr Nandita Mehtal, Prof & Head Department of Anaesthesia, expressed satisfaction on the installation of new machinery and the negative pressure system in the operation theatres for providing safe surgical working environment.
D K Batra, Joint Secretary, told that the management has purely gone by the suggestions of the working OT team of ASCOMS Hospital and approved the recommendations for providing utmost safe working conditions.
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