Subdivision of hospital operating department in different areas depending on the biological risk for staff and patients

The most advanced areas for the control of particulate and microbial contamination in the " contamination controlled " environments are undoubtedly space industry, electronics and pharmaceutical industries. The pharmaceutical industry is the one that comes closest to the hospital sector, at least from a microbiological point of view, and may therefore be useful to draw on its technological innovations in the field of contamination control and in particular to the Good Manufacturing Practice.