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These integrative platforms optimize the space in the OR while establishing capabilities for teleconferencing and teaching. The internal connection with hospital data management programs and other imaging platforms such as PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) also permits surgeons inside the OR to access other diagnostic images simultaneously for navigation or decision‐making during procedures. Although costly, the ease of accessing and producing medical reports, data exchange, and storage can be advantageous in hospitals with large caseloads [53].

The optimal design of an OR has been widely discussed, and standards for OR construction have been published by the American College of Surgeons on the Operating Room Environment and the American Institute of Architects Committee on Architecture for Health. In veterinary medicine, no specific guidelines exist, so common sense and translations from human surgery are used. Several solutions are commonly proposed to reduce equipment crowding and cables or lines crossing the floor in the OR [54–56].