Search results for "Theatres"

PROTEZIONE E MIGLIORAMENTO DELLE PRESTAZIONI ANTINCENDIO NEI TEATRI ALL’ITALIANA. FIRE PROTECTION AND PERFORMANCE UPGRADE IN ITALIAN STYLE THEATRES

2018

Se storicamente gli incendi sono stati la causa principale di distruzione di molti teatri all’italiana, ancora in un recente passato interventi di conservazione, restauro e adeguamento alle norme antincendio, in alcuni casi incolti e irrispettosi, ne hanno stravolto gli elementi architettonico-costruttivi caratterizzanti. Come per ogni edificio storico, ancor più nei Teatri, in cui l’effimero connota molte parti della costruzione, è necessario garantire oltre alla salvaguardia delle vite umane, la protezione dell’edificio e del suo valore intrinseco. Il processo per raggiungere livelli adeguati di prestazioni e sicurezza antincendio pone pertanto molte sfide per i legislatori, i progettisti…

Ventilating the newborn and child

2010

Summary The mechanical ventilation of neonates and children in operating theatres has always posed a challenge for anaesthesiologists. Firstly, the extreme physiological features of neonatal lungs make them very difficult to ventilate with an anaesthesia ventilator. Gattinoni's "baby lung" concept to describe ARDS lungs in adults comes from the physiological features of neonatal lungs (low dynamic compliance, low pulmonary time constant, low FRC, high closing volume, proneness to atelectasis, high inspiratory airway resistance). Secondly, the performance and technology (peak flow, insufflation power, trigger sensitivity, ventilation modes, etc.) of anaesthesia ventilators is still less adva…

Promoting inter‐professional teamwork and learning – the case of a surgical operating theatre

2010

Hospitals, and surgical operating theatres (OTs) in particular, are environments in which inter‐professional teamwork and learning are essential to secure patient safety and effective practice. However, it has been revealed in many studies that inter‐professional collaborative work in hospital organisations faces many challenges and constraints. In this study we examine surgical operations as participatory practices from the perspective of inter‐professional learning and cooperation. We ask what kinds of shared practices enable learning and collaboration within the surgical operating team. We used an ethnographic approach to data collection including observations and interviews of surgical …

A Proposed Methodology to Control Body Temperature in Patients at Risk of Hypothermia by means of Active Rewarming Systems

2014

Hypothermia is a common complication in patients undergoing surgery under general anesthesia. It has been noted that, during the first hour of surgery, the patient’s internal temperature (Tcore) decreases by 0.5–1.5°C due to the vasodilatory effect of anesthetic gases, which affect the body’s thermoregulatory system by inhibiting vasoconstriction. Thus a continuous check on patient temperature must be carried out. The currently most used methods to avoid hypothermia are based on passive systems (such as blankets reducing body heat loss) and on active ones (thermal blankets, electric or hot-water mattresses, forced hot air, warming lamps, etc.). Within a broader research upon the environment…

ASPETTI DI SOSTENIBILITÀ NEL RECUPERO DEI TEATRI STORICI

2014

It is well known as the "Italian" historic theater in our country is largely widespread, sufficiently stable in its typological configuration characterized by the stalls area with the boxes rows and the stage with the handling systems of stagecraft, behind a rich facade able to qualify the urban environment. As a result of the recent legislation bills, a number of public and private Italians authorities have begun an intensive recovery, value and protection of the theatrical architectural heritage present in own territories. However several conflicting proposals regarding the way of the maintenance work, highly variable in relation to attitudes brought, on one hand, to privilege stability, …

Rehabilitation of theatres in Sicily

2014

ABSTRACT: In Sicilian area, as well as elsewhere in Europe, the theatres built between the last decades of the XVIII century and the beginning of the XX century are progressively disappearing because of integrations and substitutions required by the new “modernity”, the change of use of the building itself that do not respect the original purpose. The current study, starting from a 1868 census carried on by the Home Office of the Italian Reign, punctually retraces the status of the surveyed theatres, and updates the list of those that were built afterwards, it also analyzes theatres’ state of maintenance, current use and occurred changes. In the most of the cases we are in front of “Italian…

Virtual Reality Based Simulators for Neurosurgeons - What We Have and What We Hope to Have in the Nearest Future

2018

High levels of manual skills, good visual-motor coordination, excel‐lent imagination and spatial awareness are the main factors determining the success of neurosurgeons. Proficiency in neurosurgical skills used to be acquired through hands-on training in cadaver labs and in real operating theatres under master neurosurgeon supervision. Most recently, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) computer simulations have also been considered as tools for education in the neurosurgical training. The authors review existing solutions and present their own concept of a simulator which could become the useful tool for planning, simulation and training of a specific neurosurgical procedure usi…

Ventilation systems and thermal conditions in operating rooms

2006

On the assessment of the environmental comfort in operating theatres

2006

Goethe y la arquitectura teatral

2016

[EN] As a playwright and theatre director in Weimar, Goethe became interested in theatre architecture. He proved it in his architectural drawings. He channeled his ideas through theatre type described by Vitruvius and its modern time adaptation by Palladio in his Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza. All this was reflected in several sketches and the project developed together with architect Coudray after the fire in Weimar theatre in 1825