Abstract

Introduction and objective: As one of the main units in the hospital, the operating room constitutes the most important stage in the treatment of patients and because of the physical characteristics, existing medical gases and using diverse electrical devices, observance of safety tips is very important. The objective of this study was to appraise the safety standards observance in the operation rooms of the educational - therapeutic hospitals of Iran University of Medical Sciences. Materials and Methods: The current research is cross-sectional type that was conducted in 2018. The research environment and population consisted of all the operating rooms of the educational-therapeutic hospitals of Iran University of Medical Sciences. The used instrument was a graded scale to observe safety operating standards in the operating room (including five fields of physical safety-related standards, firefighting, personnel safety, patient safety, and infection control safety.) The mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data. Results: The total compliance with safety standards in the hospitals was 75.30%. Also, the results disclosed that the patient's safety field had the highest compliance (80.79%). Based on the obtained results, Shahid Rajaee hospital operating room had the highest level of compliance rate (90.36%) and Shahid Motahari Hospital operation room manifested the lowest compliance rate with 65.86%. Conclusion: Generally, the results designate the acceptable statue of the studied operating room of the hospitals in line with observing the safety standards in the assessed fields. So, proper corrective measures have to be considered to supply the complete safety of the operating room for all components. With regard to observing the safety standards in line with infectious, which has the lowest percentage of compliance, managers should revise their training practices in this field and by means of new approaches of infection control (increasing the belief in the position of patient safety and the emphasis on personal protection), increase the effectiveness of training courses.