As a healthcare professional, you are well aware of the issues of maintaining a comfortable working environment during surgery in your Operating Rooms:

• Surgeons are continually pushing the limits of current HVAC design.  As procedures and safety precautions change, doctors are requesting lower temperatures and less humidity.
• These new preferences for the conditions in the operating room are exceeding the capabilities of the standard design.

What are the key issues, ramifications and solutions?

Please join me, for a discussion entitled "Temperature and Humidity in Today's ORs" at the ISHE Spring Meeting.   The details of this presentation are shown below.

Indiana Society for Healthcare Engineering
ISHE Spring Meeting, May 16-17
JAWACDAH Farm, Batesville, Indiana
Contact information:  www.ISHEWEB.org
Presentation:  Friday, May 16, 2008  at 1:15 p.m.
Temperature and Humidity in Today's ORs

In my presentation, we will address the drivers that are causing these new conditions as well as current options and new technologies that Healthcare Facility Management need to keep up with the trends and satisfy surgeons and hospital standards.  The healthcare industry needs to understand these changing requirements, so I invite you to please join me at this at this important discussion.

For additional information about my presentation, or the available options of maintaining a cool dry and quiet Operating Room, please contact me at the above phone number.

Sincerely,

Dave Sommer

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