No. CS/SB 162
Filed under Healthcare.
Protection from Surgical Smoke; Defining the terms “smoke evacuation system” and “surgical smoke”; requiring hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers, by a specified date, to adopt and implement policies to prevent patients and personnel from being exposed to harmful surgical smoke, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDBy January 1, 2027, every licensed facility must adopt and implement policies preventing patients and staff from surgical smoke exposure that is deemed a health risk and shown by medical evidence to cause harm.
Facilities can comply using a smoke evacuation system or any other appropriate measure during procedures likely to generate surgical smoke, a term covering laser and electrosurgical byproducts such as plume, bioaerosols, and lung-damaging dust.
AIBy January 1, 2027, every licensed facility must adopt and implement policies to prevent patients and staff from being exposed to surgical smoke that is deemed a health risk and shown by medical evidence to cause harm.
AIFacilities are not required to use any single method -- they may comply by installing a smoke evacuation system or by using any other appropriate measure during a surgical procedure likely to generate surgical smoke.
AIDefines 'surgical smoke' as the gaseous byproduct of energy-generating devices such as lasers and electrosurgical tools, a definition that expressly reaches surgical plume, bioaerosols, laser-generated airborne contaminants, and lung-damaging dust.