CSA Standard helps clear toxic smoke from operating rooms
Surgical lasers and advanced operating techniques may create occupational hazard for healthcare workers.
Canadian Standards Association (CSA), a leading developer of standards and codes, announces Canada's first standard to help protect healthcare workers in surgical, diagnostic, therapeutic and aesthetic settings exposed to noxious airborne contaminants, collectively called "plume." Procedures that require instruments such as surgical lasers to treat a patient can generate toxic smoke and other vapours that may create an occupational health risk for healthcare workers and other professionals.