Centre Hospitalier de Clermont-Ferrand – Hôpital de Thiers A solution that meets technical and hygienic needs and provides better quality of work for medical teams. The medical team can really feel the difference and the improved comfort of working in this operating room compared to other rooms. Installation of the camera thus needed to be compatible with demountable sound-absorbing tiles and comply with the hygienic requirements for an operating room. The technical department was aware that the acquisition of the camera would also require regular maintenance where access to the ceiling was required. The X-ray camera is a piece of highly technical equipment that generates noise, approximately around 53 dB(A), and it is well known that the use of this technique will affect the sound environment in the operating room. Fabrice Levrault happily shares the reasons that led him to choose a sound-absorbing modular ceiling in 2019. The hospital has acquired an X-ray camera for one of its operating rooms, here in an Angiography room. Interviewee: Fabrice Levrault, Project and Maintenance Engineer Centre Hospitalier de l'Agglomération de Nevers Managers of technical- and other departments in different hospitals in France were interviewed on this subject and shared their experiences with us. A modular acoustic ceiling will make it possible to intervene as quickly as possible. Any maintenance or intervention in the operating room must be carried out quickly in order to interfere as little as possible with the availability of the room and not create hold-ups. In fact, for technical and accessibility reasons, hospital maintenance teams favour this type of ceiling. It is easier to get access to installations for the group of technical teams working on these premises with demountable tiles. The second beneficial factor of an acoustic modular ceiling is the accessibility of the technical installations in the plenum.
Nevertheless, technical installations are also to be considered to promote a better sound environment and a better working environment for medical staff. To facilitate good room acoustics, staff must collaborate with general policies as well as individual behaviours.
Once again, noise is perceived as a real barrier to communication. 1Ī French study of medical staff 2 working in operating theatres shows that 98% of them consider their environment to be noisy. In addition, 90% of them experienced the sound environment as being less stressful when acoustic ceilings and/or wall panels were installed. The first beneficial factor provided by an acoustic modular ceiling is better working comfort for medical teams and facilitated communication.Ī study conducted in Denmark showed that caregivers found communication to be improved when measures were taken to improve acoustics.
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