pital's success was educating staff and having surgeons actively
involved in the purchasing decisions to find an evacuator everyone
would use.
Dr. Ball adds that surgical smoke is a workplace safety issue, meaning
OSHA could potentially cite you for it. Still, many respondents say that
for the future, they hope for stricter rules making it mandatory to have
smoke-free ORs. "Exposure to surgical smoke is easily managed with
the appropriate smoke evacuators, so why should we expose staff to
this?" asks Ms. Kelly. "The use of smoke evacuators should be mandato-
ry and not left to physician discretion." OSM
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