Abstract

This work analyzes the influence of the luminaries of an operating room in the air temperature and air velocity at the operating table and, eventually, in the degree of satisfaction of its users. The use of ANSYS program has provided the speed and air temperature at any point in the premises. For the study, there has been chosen those points located at a height of 0.10, 0.60, 0.82, 1.30, 1.70, 2.00 and 2.40 m above the ground, for they are considered the most ergonomically representative. The result shows that the PPD increases with the presence of luminaries, being greater than 15% in 0,40 m2 of the surface of the operating table, at 1.30 m high. The number (be it one or four) and the location (be it centred or placed in the vertical of the four corners of the table) is the cause of different distributions of the zones of the table affected by higher PPD than desirable.