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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Surgical health centres.

Article D6124-403

Operating theatres must be set up in such a way that they can be used at night as well as during the day. Emergency lighting must be provided in the event of a power failure. They must be heated and v…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Surgical health centres.

Article D6124-401

The general organisation, staff, equipment and all services of a surgical clinic must be adapted to the maximum number of patients that can normally be admitted and operated on. Any new facility must…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Surgical health centres.

Article D6124-402

Each surgical nursing home must have at least : 1° An aseptic operating room with, attached to it, a surgeon's preparation room and, if necessary, an anaesthesia room; 2° A septic operating room in wh…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Surgical health centres.

Article D6124-404

The establishment must have an oxygen supply.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Surgical health centres.

Article D6124-408

Regularly updated records of visits and prescriptions are kept, as well as medical observations for each patient. An operating protocol is drawn up after each surgical operation.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Medical health centres.

Article D6124-409

When a medical centre includes a surgical or obstetric facility, the premises for each of these services are separate; surgical and obstetric services also meet the authorisation conditions defined by…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Surgical health centres.

Article D6124-405

Communications between operating theatres and hospital rooms must always be under cover and never take place in poorly sheltered corridors or in the open air. It must always be possible to transport a…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Surgical health centres.

Article D6124-406

Any establishment with multi-bedded rooms must have at least two single rooms per twenty beds or fraction thereof.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Surgical health centres.

Article D6124-407

Throughout the day, there should never be less than one care worker for every five beds.

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Poison control centres.

Article D6141-40

Poison control centres are involved in toxicovigilance. Their toxicovigilance missions are defined in article R. 1340-5.

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