Surgical Smoke Safety

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  1. 4. For those procedures anticipated to produce a higher amount of surgical smoke, the suction tubing will be attached direction to the ESU what with incorporated smoke evacuator tubing and in-line filter.
  2. 5. The smoke capture device will be positioned as close to the surgical site as possible but no farther than this many inches from the source of smoke.
  3. 7. A high efficiency particulate air filter is also known as this type of filter.
  4. 10. This type of smoke can contain toxic potentially cancer causing gases and vapors such as benzene, hydrogen cyanide, formaldehyde, and bioaerosols; dead and live cellular material including blood fragments; and viruses.
  5. 11. The circulating nurse will do this to record the use surgical smoke evacuation devices in the intraoperative record.
  6. 12. This type of precautions will be used to handle used smoke evacuator filters, tubing and wands as potentially infectious waste.
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  1. 1. For these types of invasive procedures (example laparoscopic or robotic procedures) surgical smoke will be evacuated and filter with a surgical smoke management system.
  2. 2. When a medical-surgical suction system is used to evacuate a small amount of surgical smoke an in-line type of this with an activated carbon filter will be used.
  3. 3. Used smoke evacuator filters, tubing and wands will be disposed of as this type of waste.
  4. 4. Standard Precautions requires the appropriate and consistent use of: hand hygiene, respiratory etiquette, safe workplace habits for handling and disposing of sharps, linen and waste, and this type of equipment.
  5. 6. This type of protection may be used as secondary protection against high-risk aerosolizing conditions.
  6. 8. The smoke evacuator will be active at these times when surgical smoke is produced during the procedure.
  7. 9. The surgical smoke evacuation unit with a 0.1-micron ultra-low particulate air filter is also known as this type of filter.