Abstract
With the wide application of electronic surgical equipment, the generation of surgical smoke is inevitable. Surgical smoke will not only obstruct the operator's visibility, but also release toxic and harmful substances into the air, which will make the operator a headache and cause inflammation of the eyes and mucous membranes. In order to evaluate whether the existing operating room ventilation system can give priority to control the diffusion of surgical smoke, it is necessary to understand the generation, release, transmission and elimination performance of surgical smoke. This paper studied the rule of the influence of surgical smoke in different areas of the operating room through experiments, and verified by the three-area heterogeneous model. At a static state, the cleanliness level of the operating area and the surrounding area is ISO4 and ISO6. When there is staff activity, the operating room is in a dynamic state, and the operating area and the surrounding area are ISO7. When there is surgical smoke, the cleanliness level of the operating area is reduced to ISO8, and the surrounding area has little influence. This indicates that personnel activities and surgical smoke in the operating room have a great impact on the operating room environment.
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Acknowledgement is given to Nanjing TICA Climate Solutions Co. Ltd. for providing the operating room laboratory as the experimental site in this study.
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Jianjie Cheng
Jianjie Cheng is an associate professor at Nanjing Tech University, China. She is the head for Department of HVAC at College of Urban Construction. Her research area covers the environmental control in building and energy efficient measures for sustainable development of green buildings.
Xiaoyi Niu
Xiaoyi Niu is a master candidate from Nanjing Tech University, China. She is interested in numerical simulation with two-phase flow field.
Rui Zhang
Rui Zhang is a master from Nanjing Tech University, China. She is interested in experiment with air cleanliness level in operating room.
Xidong Zhu
Xidong Zhu is a master candidate from Nanjing Tech University, China. He is interested in numerical simulation and experiment with flow field and heat pipe.
Song Lu
Song Lu is a master candidate from Nanjing Tech University, China. He is interested in clean air technology and pollution control for good indoor air quality.
Bin Zhou
Bin Zhou is an associate professor at Nanjing Tech University, China. He is currently the head of the laboratory for College of Urban Construction at NanjingTech. His research interests include air filtration, cleanroom technology, micro-contamination control and indoor air quality. He is a youth member for Journal of HV&AC, a member of Chinese Society of Particuology and Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences.
Xianting Li
Xianting Li is a professor in Department of Building Science at Tsinghua University, China. His interest is heating, ventilation and air conditioning, numerical analysis on air flow, refrigeration and thermal storage system.