title: Birth wind and fire: raising awareness to operating room fires during delivery.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We researched whether the obstetric operating room (OR) qualified as a fire-risk environment so as to take preventive measures accordingly.
  
  
  METHODS
  We analyzed a series of iatrogenic burns inflicted during birth by collecting clinical data and comparing it with known OR fire risk factors and with other factors that repeated in all cases in search of unique characteristics of the obstetric OR.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All three cases shared in common the same type of oxygen-rich open ventilation system, alcohol-based prepping solution, and the hastiness of cesarean delivery while spontaneous vaginal delivery was already in progress.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The obstetric OR is, as suspected, a fire-prone zone in more ways than the regular OR. Therefore, preventive measures should be undertaken and awareness for the possibility for such occurrences should be raised.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Assaf Harofe Medical Center, Zeriffin, Israel. omerwlf@gmail.com
authors.forename: Omer
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Wolf
authors.forename: Oren
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Weissman
authors.forename: Moti
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Harats
authors.forename: Nimrod
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Farber
authors.forename: Demetris
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stavrou
authors.forename: Ariel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tessone
authors.forename: Isaac
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Zilinsky
authors.forename: Eyal
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Winkler
authors.forename: Josef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Haik
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001364:Awareness; D002056:Burns / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D003696:Delivery Rooms / Q000592:standards; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000009:adverse effects; D005260:Female; D005390:Fires / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009873:Operating Rooms / Q000592:standards; D036801:Parturition / Q000502:physiology*; D011247:Pregnancy