Hiding in plain sight: Surgical smoke threatens health of OR staff.

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  • Judith M Mathias
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1 Hiding in plain sight: Surgical smoke threatens health of OR staff Research has shown that electrosurgical smoke presents a serious health hazard for the OR team. However, many remain skeptical of its harmful effects, and compliance with smoke evacuation recommendations is not consistent. Electrosurgical smoke results from the vaporization of tissue, fluid, and blood into a gaseous form by electrosurgical instruments. The smoke can contain live and dead cellular material including viruses and bacteria. Chemicals are produced, some of which are carcinogenic. Environmental health research has shown that the real danger is with nanoparticles, which comprise 80% of surgical smoke, Leonard Schultz, MD, FACS, told OR Manager. These ultrafine particles are less than 100 nanometers in size. When inhaled, they can cross the alveolar membranes and enter a person’s blood and lymphatic circulatory systems and travel to distant organs. “It is this environmental health research that should make evacuation of surgical smoke a priority for surgeons and nurses,” says Dr Schultz. Dr Schultz is former clinical assistant professor of surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, and CEO and chairman of Nascent Surgical, LLC, Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Nascent Surgical manufactures the miniSQUAIR surgical smoke evacuation system.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • OR manager

دوره 31 9  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015