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en minutes. That's all the time Kim York, BSN, MS, RN,
CNOR, CSSM, had to make her case for smoke evacua-
tion to the hospital board, medical board and surgical
committee at Dosher Memorial Hospital in Southport,
N.C.
"I had to stuff a lot of convincing information into my PowerPoint
slides," she says.
Among the smoke-evacuation selling points she included in her timed
STAFF SAFETY
Standing up for
Surgical Smoke Safety
The staff at Dosher Memorial Hospital banded together to protect
themselves — and surgeons — from the dangers of toxic plumes.
Dosher
Memorial
Hospital
• ALL FOR ONE It took a total team effort to
achieve 100% compliance with using smoke
evacuators during plume-generating cases.
