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Would You Let Nurses Smoke in the OR?

Of course not. So why aren't you evacuating surgical plumes?

Wendy Winer, RN, BSN, CNOR

Nearly every OR in the world is equipped with some type of electrosurgical instrument or laser that generates surgical smoke or plume. So why isn't the use of smoke evacuators just as widespread? Likely because administrators naïve to the dangers of the pollutants don't make the devices readily available or surgical personnel worried about case efficiencies don't put them to use. Don't fall into that trap. Here are 5 compelling reasons why smoke evacuation should become a routine practice in your ORs.

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