Interfacing of Hazardous Gas Sensors in Operation Theater

Abstract– Hospital healthcare workers face many injurious and toxic gases in the operation theaters and intensive care units. These include potential chemicals like disinfectants, sterilizing agents, gases agents, waste anesthetics gas which causes respiratory and reproductive disorders, eye and skin irritation, central nervous system impairment, cancers, and other human health effects. The most commonly used chemicals like formaldehyde and peracetic acid which are used for sterilization of the operation theatres are hazardous to health workers. There is an urgent need for sensors to continuously monitor the toxic levels of these harmful sterilant and alert the Health care workers. This project gives the solution to reduce the risk factors in isolated operation theatres that needs to be sterilized each time before a surgery takes place by detecting and displaying the levels of the sterilant on a continuous basis. Levels of sterilant should be monitored at multiple points in the same theatre room. The system also gives an audio and visual warning when levels of these sterilant are at risk This project gives an economical and efficient method to safely intimate the health care workers to monitor the sterilized levels of the operation theatres and labs in a hospital by using latest multiple sensor interfacing.