Surgical smoke creates a hazardous operating room for staff members and patients, as breathing in smoke presents serious health effects. Ninety-five percent water vapor, surgical smoke also contains a ...

Just breathing the air in an operating room where hot surgical tools are being used to slice and cauterize tissue — emitting puffs of caustic smoke in the process — is said to be the equivalent of ...

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If you've ever been in an operating room where tools are used to simultaneously cut and cauterize human flesh, you know what surgical smoke is. The heat generated by these surgical tools produces ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Smoking is a pretty hot topic in the state of Kentucky. It usually falls in the realm of smoking linked to tobacco use, but a new topic around smoke has captured the attention ...

Smoke from surgical tools can pose serious health risks for clinicians in the operating room. 1. Surgical tools that cauterize or vaporize tissue can generate smoke that moves up to 40 miles an hour ...

Surgical smoke generated from operating equipment is a health hazard for patients, perioperative nurses, surgeons and healthcare staff. Many states have passed legislation requiring the elimination of ...

ATLANTA — Some Georgia nurses say the operating rooms they work in every day are making them sick. They say the surgical smoke in the air they breathe in those ORs is full of harmful chemicals and ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to the latest market research report by Technavio, the global surgical smoke evacuation systems market is expected to post a CAGR of almost 7% during the period 2019 ...

BATON ROUGE – The Senate Committee on Health and Welfare advanced a bill Tuesday to require Louisiana operating rooms to have equipment to remove harmful surgical smoke plumes. The bill’s author, Sen.