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Archive >  Patient Safety 2011

The Case for Surgical Smoke Evacuation

Why purchasing and using this safety equipment should be a no-brainer in your ORs.

Irene Tsikitas, Associate Editor

A barbeque. That's what it used to smell like in the ORs at Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Medical Center, recalls Maria Magat, RN. And not the kind you look forward to on a holiday weekend. No, this "barbeque" consisted of energy-based surgical devices cutting and coagulating human tissue, emitting a toxic plume of nasty vapor. It's an unpleasant reality most OR nurses, techs and anesthesia providers face every day, despite the availability of many easy-to-use devices designed specifically to evacuate surgical smoke at the source. What many OR personnel — especially surgeons — may not realize is that surgical smoke isn't just offensive to the senses, it's also detrimental to their health and the health of their patients.

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