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S M O K E
E V A C U A T I O N
When it came to laser smoke, because you could see and smell the
particulates, it was an easy sell to convince staff and surgeons of the
dangers. We adopted and embraced smoke evacuation early on.
But when electrosurgery became more prevalent, that was a different matter; it wasn't recognized that this surgical method produces
smoke just like laser surgery. With electrosurgery, you may not see the
plume because it is so finite, and you can't always smell the particulates. But just as in laser surgery, these particulates contain blood,
dead and living material, potentially infectious viruses and bacteria, as
well as potentially hazardous chemicals such as acrolein, benzene,
formaldehyde, toluene and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
Research has shown contaminants have carcinogenic potential.
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