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Surgical Smoke: Risks and Preventive Measures

Endovision

Surgical smoke is a by-product of energy-based surgical instruments. Any procedure that is done with the use of a surgical device used to cut, desiccate, and ablate tissue can produce surgical smoke when tissues vaporise. Major Hazards of Surgical Smoke 1. According to a study by Mihashi et al.,

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Preventing Cross-Contamination through Disinfecting & Cleaning Surgical Instruments

Trocar Supplies

Patient safety, surgical departments discovered, comes at a cost. Duodenoscopes are complicated instruments with many small parts, but cross-contamination occurs in all kinds of surgical instruments. The reprocessing of surgical instruments begins with cleaning. Hospitals found that they needed 3.4 Impingement.