Comparison of different medical clothing used in Operating Rooms (OR’s)—the importance of thermal comfort at work

The mean skin temperature of, approximately, 33 °C and non-occurrence of sweating or chills are the general condition for a health professional experience thermal comfort. Studies have determined that surgeons experience thermal comfort when OR temperature is between 20 °C and 24 °C and if their clothing system were consisted by shoes, cotton socks, nonwoven surgical clothing with viscose fiber and good air and water vapor permeability (Bogdan et al., 2011).