A Smoke Evacuator Equipped With a Filter Contributes Enough to Safe Gas Exhaustion From the Abdominal Cavity
| Autor: | Kiyokazu Nakajima, Yukinori Kurokawa, Makoto Yamasaki, Hidetoshi Eguchi, Masashi Hirota, Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Yuichiro Doki, Hidekazu Takahashi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Suction (medicine)
medicine.medical_specialty Waste management Swine business.industry Virus transmission Abdominal Cavity General Medicine Abdominal cavity Surgery Filter (aquarium) medicine.anatomical_structure Porcine tissue Smoke Electrocoagulation medicine Animals Humans business Smoke Evacuator |
| Zdroj: | Asian Journal of Endoscopic Surgery. 15:427-431 |
| ISSN: | 1758-5910 1758-5902 |
| Popis: | Surgical plume (SP) carries biological risks such as virus transmission. An evacuation system can remove SP from the surgical field, but is it safe to release evacuated gas into the operating room (OR) atmosphere? We examined this using a commercially available evacuator equipped with a filter under a laparoscopic porcine surgery model. SP was generated by activating an electrocautery or ultrasonic scalpel on the surface of the liver, and we evaluated whether DNA fragments derived from porcine tissue were present in the exhausted gas from the evacuation system into the atmosphere. DNA fragments were detected in the inlet gas of the evacuation system, while it was not detected in the outlet gas. As far as pathogen transmission via SP in the abdominal cavity is concerned, if the smoke evacuator ensures filter adsorption, it seems that there is little risk in releasing the suction gas into the atmosphere in the OR. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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