induction room definition
induction room means an area where patients are prepared for surgery/invasive procedures prior to beingtransferred to the operating theatre; "intensive-care unit" means a unit designed, staffed and equipped for the care and management of specific patients (for example, medical, cardiac or post-operative) requiring a minimum of twelve hours nursing care per patient day or for the care of a patient who requires ventilation, continuous invasive monitoring, invasive care, or who is clinically unstable and whose life is at risk; "main kitchen" means a facility suitably finished and equipped for the receipt, storage and preparation of meals, special diets and beverages; "maternity unit" means a unit where antenatal care is provided, babies are delivered and postnatal care is given to mothers and infants; "midwife obstetric unit (MOU)" means a maternity unit usually attached to a clinic or a community health centre (CHC), which is staffed by nursing sisters or midwives; "mortuary" means a facility that receives, holds and allows for the identification of bodies of patients who died in the wards, theatre or casualty department, or who were dead on arrival at the facility; a facility which complies with the IUSS Mortuary Services guidance document "neonatal unit" means a facility for premature and newborn babies requiring incubation, specific care and monitoring; "nurse station" means the control point for all activities in the patient care areas; "nursing unit or ward" means a unit with the facilities to accommodate patients; "operating room” means a room within an operating theatre suite in which surgical or other invasive procedures are carried out; "operating suite" refers to rooms within the demarcated area where surgical interventions are performed or support is provided to these surgical activities; "patient room" means a room where the patient can be accommodated; "procedure room" means a room in which certain restricted procedures generally taking less than one hour can be performed without making use of general anaesthetic, for example endoscopies, procedures under local anaesthetic such as suturing of lacerations, removal of skin lesions, biopsies, closed reductions and other similar procedures; it may be situated outside the operating suite; "recovery room/area" means the section of the operating suite specially set aside for the immediate post- operative recovery, resuscitation, nursing and special care of patients, until such time as such patients are considered to ...