Room Use Codes & Definitions

ooms, medication and nourishment rooms, etc., as needed.840 SurgeryDefinition: A room used for surgery.Description: Included in this category are major and minor surgery rooms, delivery rooms andspecial procedures operating rooms (e.g., OB-GYN, ophthalmic operating rooms). Theserooms are typically equipped with operating room tables, sterile lights, anesthesia machines andvarious types of monitoring equipment. Institutions may wish to distinguish specific types ofsurgery or operating rooms through extension coding. Also includes rooms in veterinary facilitiestypically referred to as large animal surgery, small animal (includes poultry) surgery,bovine surgery, bull surgery, etc.Limitations: Does not include the various surgery support rooms that are used as a directextension of surgery activities (see 845). Also does not include rooms used for the minorinvasive procedures (e.g., blood withdrawal, cardiac catheterization) of the diagnostic examinationprocess (see 850).845 Surgery ServiceDefinition: A room that directly serves a surgery room as an extension of the activities in thatfacility.Description: Included are recovery rooms, labor rooms, special support equipment rooms(e.g., anesthesia, heart, lung, X-ray, etc.), dictation booths, scrub-up rooms, gown rooms,locker rooms, instrument cleanup and storage rooms, sterile supply storage rooms, patient(surgery preparation) cleaning rooms, monitor rooms, gas and gurney storage areas, postoperativeand operating room repair rooms, clean and dirty linen areas, and animal holding rooms ifthese rooms directly serve the surgery facility.Limitations: Storage and other support rooms that do not directly serve a Surgery (840)facility should be classified with the appropriate service room category. Rooms used for thedirect implementation of surgical procedures are classified Surgery (840).78 CHAPTER 5