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Operating lamp: what color should the lighting be in an operating room?

One of the aspects that is important and that is part of the needs of a surgeon at the time of the operation, is the lighting; in the operating rooms, it is necessary some basic elements for the surgeon to do his work as: a sterilized environment, gowns and surgical material; operating table and instrumentalist doctors, anesthetists; however, one of the indispensable structures are the operating lamps, and with them the color of the lighting of the operating room.

A well-lit operating table, is what any surgeon needs to be able to observe the tissue or any organ, monitor the health status of the patient, so the lighting of an operating room, must be white, that is, the light of the lamps must be white; combined with a green and light blue wall color, which allows the doctor, to rest the gaze when he is in operation.

Advantages of white light in operating room lighting

  • Observe the color of the organ or compound surface.
  • The human eye perceives more clearly.
  • It provides thermal comfort in the surgery room.
  • This is a determining factor in the selection of lamps for operating rooms.
  • It offers safety to the patient and comfort to the medical staff.
  • Ensures the efficiency of the operation
  • Promotes patient diagnosis.

Operating lamps

In any surgical procedure, a good lighting is necessary, because on it depends the performance of the surgeon, it optimizes the results of the surgical rooms and guarantees the health of the patient, has one or more assemblies of light heads attached to a suspension arm, which allows movements; some installed on the roof and others have a mobile support that moves on the ground.

They are specially designed to work for long periods, without emitting heat, causing discomfort, drying the tissues, in addition, they do not heat which facilitates the doctor to touch it to better move it and project the light, does not produce reflections or shadows, in some cases, the light that the lamps present in addition to white, can be blue or light green; they are complementary colors of red and allow to rest the view of the surgeon, this in combination with the space of the operating room.

Types of KALSTEIN operating lamps

  • Operating Lamp (YR02115-YR02123): Led (light emitting diode) and Beam Sharper technology.
  • Operation lamp model (YE02106/YR02108/YR02110/YR02112): offers four colors: green, amber, red and warm/cool white; Led technology.
  • Operating lamp (YR02125-YR02133/YR02136-YR02140): halogen technology, blue teak reflector treatment.
  • Operating lamp (YR02196-YR02200/YR02201-YR02204): halogen, blue teak reflector treatment.

This series of models have certain features and technologies that will depend on the surgical needs that exist in the field of health, if you want to know in depth each of the models and check with your needs, just visit the following link HERE

Lamp characteristics

  • Halogens: They offer a whiter light very intense and bright, are manufactured with halogen gas, this type of lamps, offers the advantage that the higher the illumination, reduces energy consumption, but they can increase the temperature of the place where they are used and cause power failures, which could affect the visibility of the doctor and the safety of the patient.
  • LED: They offer more safety to touch, do not heat up and do not generate as much heat, the life of these lamps is about 50,000 hours, they have low power consumption, more intense light, no shadow, they facilitate safety and comfort.

If you want to know the product catalog to buy some of the operating lamps we have for you, just visit our website, we guarantee you will make an interesting visit of the range of products that KALSTEIN has for you, moreover you will be able to ask for a technical service for the installation of your lamps or the change of bulbs, trust us and we assure you that through our online purchase channels that are very easy and viable, do not hesitate any more and enter the following link: HERE we remind you that we are manufacturer of high level laboratory equipment purchase-sale.