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Advancing Operating Room Performance
Reducing Infection Risk Through Airflow Design, Environmental Monitoring, and Smart Infrastructure
Virtual
September 16th at 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
About The Conference
The agenda consistently features evergreen themes that reflect the sector’s top priorities. These include the economic outlook and its impact on budgets, funding models, and system transformation, capital financing and infrastructure planning, workforce costs and HR challenges, and procurement and cost-containment strategies. Emerging priorities such as sustainability, automation, and AI are also explored, ensuring attendees stay ahead of new financial realities in healthcare.
Webinar Topics
Advancing Operating Room Performance: Reducing Infection Risk Through Airflow Design, Environmental Monitoring, and Smart Infrastructure
As Canadian healthcare organizations invest in surgical capacity, redevelopment projects, and infrastructure modernization, operating room design plays a critical role in supporting patient safety, operational efficiency, and long-term facility performance. This session explores how healthcare leaders, facility teams, designers, and engineers can leverage evidence-based approaches to reduce the risk of hospital-acquired infections, with a particular focus on surgical site infections (SSIs).
Participants will gain insight into how airflow design, room pressurization, and environmental conditions influence airborne particle migration within operating rooms. Through the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling, real-time indoor environmental quality (IEQ) monitoring, and predictive analytics, attendees will learn how healthcare facilities can better assess, manage, and maintain optimal operating environments.
The presentation will also highlight lessons from highly controlled industries, such as advanced manufacturing and cleanroom environments, and demonstrate how modular construction strategies, integrated building systems, and energy-efficient design can support healthcare redevelopment goals. These approaches can help improve environmental performance, reduce project timelines, enhance infrastructure resilience, and support safer surgical care across Canadian healthcare facilities.
Featured Speaker
David Rausch
Sr. Business Development Manager, Healthcare & Research Markets, Phoenix Controls
Key Learning Objectives
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Evaluate the impact of operating room airflow, ventilation strategies, and pressurization controls on airborne contamination risk and surgical site infection prevention using evidence-based design and CFD modeling principles.
- Identify opportunities to enhance operating room performance through real-time environmental monitoring, predictive analytics, and indoor environmental quality (IEQ) surveillance systems that support facility operations and clinical outcomes.
- Apply healthcare infrastructure and redevelopment best practices, including modular construction approaches, energy optimization strategies, and cleanroom-inspired design principles, to improve operating room quality, efficiency, and long-term operational sustainability.
Registration
Visit the Advancing Operating Room Performance registration page for more information.
