Microbiological surveillance of operation theatres and ICUs of a tertiary care hospital, Lahore

The aims of this work was to study the level of bacterial contamination of air, surfaces and equipment in operation theatres of a tertiary care hospital in Lahore. Settle plates method was used for air samples and swabs for surfaces and other articles. High bacteriological contamination of air and sucker machine was detected and total bacteriological counts in air samples was high. On the other hand surfaces showed less bacterial contamination. It is concluded that microbiological surveillance of operating theaters can play an important role in reducing bacterial contamination consequently peroperative infectious episodes can be reduced considerably