How equipped operating rooms?

An experimental operating room is a device in the surgical technology, medical, building, and textile art in the sense of efficient and safe system to be developed, demonstrated and trained.
 Patients without risk and without interruption, in this "experimental operating" a complete system in different functional states are not only explains and trains, but also repaired and maintained. Research and development of new products and the simulation and optimization of working processes are also the target system.


The world's first and only "experimental surgery" was established in 2006 at the University Hospital of Tübingen and financed with additional funding from the State of Baden-Württemberg. Over 80 companies from medical, building, textile technology, architects and planners built a complete surgical suite. In addition to classrooms in "Experimental OR" essential function of a hospital sites are built fully functional:

     Two operating rooms
     Einleitungs-/Aufwachraum
     intensive care unit
     Sterile / supply
     equipment rooms

 In the fully equipped operating theater research and development is carried out without endangering patients, because this are no operations on patients and no animal testing is necessary. The main topics in the "Experimental OR" are usability and user-centered design, hygiene, technology development, systems integration, staff training, in-service training and qualification of personnel, hospital planning, - construction and certification.