operating-room

Example Sentences

• "On its being announced that about 25l. was ſtill wanting to complete the new operating-room, (the expence of which is defrayed by a ſubſcription independent of the funds of the hoſpital,) W. C. Trevelyan, eſq; preſented 5l. and Col. Pinney, in the name of the officers of his regt. (the Somerton and Langport local militia) gave 20l. being the ſecond donation of the ſame amount benevolently contributed by this highly reſpectable corps to the uſe of the Hoſpital."
• "When it is used for medical clinics, glass doors close it off from the passageway on either side, but along either of these passageways surgical cases can be brought from the etherizing-room to an operating-room on either side, under the amphitheater. These operating-rooms have a northern light, a side light and also a skylight, the latter being shown on the plan of the third story. These operating-rooms are under the amphitheater, but with a double ceiling and deadening all objectionable sound can be cut off. There is also a sterilizing-room centrally situated for all the operating-rooms, a room for the doctors and one for the nurses to make their antiseptic toilets, and cases for instruments, bandages, supplies, etc."
• "It seems to be admitted that prompt, quick and careful transportation of patients even over considerable distances, as, for instance, from one building to another, is not trying on the patients and is not hazardous, as a rule, and in some places recovery-rooms are employed to hold patients until they are in a condition to be moved back safely from the operating-rooms to their own beds."