Section 449.61228 - Operating rooms: Equipment and staff1. Each operating room designated or available for open-heart surgery must be equipped with: (a) A heart-lung bypass machine.(b) Proper suction and plumbing outlets for heat exchangers for the heart-lung bypass machine.(c) An adequate supply of electrical power, including, without limitation, standby emergency electrical power.(d) Surgical instruments.(e) A device to conserve blood.(f) An electronic warmer for blood.(g) Monitors to review the electrocardiogram and the pressure in two channels of blood flow.(h) Operating lights which are sufficiently bright to illuminate the inside of body cavities and sufficiently maneuverable to illuminate two operating fields on a patient simultaneously.(i) A defibrillating apparatus.2. The operating room must have available: (a) A complete set of pump oxygenator equipment.(b) Facilities and appropriate support personnel for the use of an intra-aortic balloon.3. Each operating room designated for open-heart surgery must be provided with the number of surgical nurses, technicians and ancillary personnel needed to staff the equipment and stations required in performing general surgical operations.Nev. Admin. Code § 449.61228
Added to NAC by Bd. of Health, eff. 8-31-89; A by R107-98, 3-18-99