X. Some Principles in Operating Theatre Design

Smylie, H. G.; Dudley, H. A. F.

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“…Patients’ trolleys, lockers, bed tables, had all been specially designed, and individual lighting, radio, and telephone arrangements were provided. 8 There were designated changing rooms for staff, and a trolley-change area in the anaesthetics room. This was indeed an ‘interchange zone’ – staff and patients coming from the outside had to pass through these areas to reach the ‘clean’ theatres.…”

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“…Each room had an intercom to facilitate communication between surgeons at work and students in the viewing gallery, as well as between operators in the EEG room and in the scientific observation room. 8,9 A television was available for the transmission of encephalographs. The innovative features of the theatre and ward design were detailed in a celebratory opening brochure, and the news media picked up the excitement and optimism of those involved in the new venture.…”

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“…The innovative features of the theatre and ward design were detailed in a celebratory opening brochure, and the news media picked up the excitement and optimism of those involved in the new venture. 8 The then-new DSN demonstrated the firm establishment of neurosurgery as a specialty in Edinburgh, and these remarkable operating theatres were a bold statement of its rapid and forward-looking evolution.…”

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“…By 1962, Dott believed neurosurgery in Edinburgh stood on par with the rest of the world. 8 In a letter to the University Grants Committee that year, he reported that the department enjoyed a considerable national and international reputation, having been at the forefront of most modern scientific developments in Surgical Neurology: having pioneered several of them. 11 Dott and his colleagues had led advances in the applications of EEG, intracranial aneurysm surgery, research into the management of pain and cerebrospinal fluid circulation, and the ‘understanding and therapy of human consciousness through its physical substratum’.…”

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Norman Dott's dome-shaped neurosurgical operating theatres in Edinburgh (1960–2020) – End of an era

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Chan

Richardson³

2023

J Med Biogr

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When the new twin operating theatres at the Edinburgh Department of Surgical Neurology opened for the first time on 1 July 1960, they revealed a revolutionary space-pod design. The new department had been designed to firmly establish the specialty in Scotland and the UK, setting the stage for a period of real progress. The most distinctive feature of the two operating theatres was their egg shape, including domed ceilings pierced with operating lights, general lighting, ventilation grilles and viewing ports for visitors. Norman Dott (1897–1973) and his colleagues set the foundation for prosperity and success that lasted decades. However, 60 years after their opening, the DCN theatres at Western General Hospital shut forever, as the department moved to the new Department of Clinical Neurosciences, at the new Royal Infirmary Edinburgh. Echoes of the old theatres will live on in the new; the boldness of the design of the original theatres reflected the close cooperation between clinician–teachers, architects and administrators for the public good. This tradition of tangible confidence and optimism will hopefully carry into a new era, in the new hospital.

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