Belgium

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Belgium

• By Lenka Farkašová Martin Knápek

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OLV Hospital Aalst, Belgium
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OLV Hospital Aalst, Belgium

• OLV is a very big and modern hospital. We spent
  one week on the operating theatres which were a
  separated department.
• This week was full of experience . We found out
  how it works there and we met a lot of new
  people.
• Lifestyle in Aalst is a little bit different
  because no one was in a hurry.
• Our work shift was from 800 am. to 400 pm.

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Operating theatres

• On this ward are 17 operating theatres where
  doctors provide operations under anaesthesia and
  4 operating theatres where the operations are
  without using anaesthesia.
• Staff consist of 40 surgeons, 20 anaesthetists
  and 107 nurses.
• The operations starts at 8 oclock am. First of
  all the anaesthetist puts patient to narcosis,
  the doctor injects vein twice and the nurse
  disinfects the operating field. Then comes the
  surgeon and starts his work.

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Operating theatres

• The operating theatres are divided according to
  individual areas cardiovascular surgery,
  orthopaedics, ophthalmology, neurology
• For abdominal surgeries keyhole surgery is mainly
  used.
• In this ward there are 3 robots for robotic
  surgery. They use The da Vinci Surgical System.
• This system enables surgeons to perform delicate
  and complex operations through a few tiny
  incisions with increased vision, precision,
  dexterity and control.

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The da Vinci Surgical Robot
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Special operating rooms

• In this department there are some operating rooms
  which are used only for specific body parts
• Room with a special
• machine, which is
• used for breaking
• kidney stones

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Special operating rooms

• Room for eye surgery
• Septic room
• 2 rooms for
• cardiovascular
• surgery

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Special operating rooms

• Operating theatre includes a small room where you
  can watch the operation on the monitors and when
  it is needed you can record the whole operation
  on CD.

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