Including ISO standards in evacuation policies so that compliance of their staff will advance the goal of a smoke free operating room....
State based mandates for smoke evacuation have arrived and will continue to expand thanks to the protean efforts of the legislative arm of AORN and the generous financial support from Medtronic aimed at achieving a clean air environment in the nation’s operating rooms....
Is the price too high for effective protection of the health of your surgical team? If you answered No, then you are rightfully concerned. ...
What capture technology will offer clinicians, their patients and healthcare administrators the greatest benefits?...
Can effective bioaerosol capture be considered an adjunctive method of infection control?...
The time to choose is now!...
The phrase, “smoke evacuation” is DEAD! It died when the coronavirus arrived. As elective surgery was pushed aside to prepare for increased medical hospital admissions, epidemiologists were questioning the pathogenicity of bioaerosols....
Thanks to Covid-19, our focus has shifted from removal of surgical smoke to capturing as many bioaerosols as technology allows. ...
A 3rd party paper by head and neck surgeon Dr. Jonathan Y. Ting at Indiana University who used the miniSQUAIR as well as rigid Frazier suction and ring suction to see which method did a better job of capturing aerosols produced when using surgical tools...
The principles of aerosol control learned in the hospital setting should work as well for the aircraft environment....