36-434.01. Outpatient surgical centers; hospitals; surgical smoke evacuation systems; definitions

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A. Beginning July 1, 2024, each outpatient surgical center or hospital shall adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to surgical smoke by using a smoke evacuation system for each procedure that generates surgical smoke.

B. The department shall ensure compliance with this section during any on-site inspection and in response to any complaint received relating to a violation of this section.

C. For the purposes of this section:

1. "Smoke evacuation system" means smoke evacuation equipment and technologies designed to capture, filter and remove surgical smoke at the site of origin and to prevent surgical smoke from making ocular contact or contact with an individual's respiratory tract.

2. "Surgical smoke":

(a)Means the surgical plume that is generated from the use of an energy-generating surgical device.

(b)Includes smoke plume, bio-aerosols, laser-generated airborne contaminants and lung-damaging dust.