Doreen Wagner , Sharon Pearcey , Christopher J. Hudgins , Brenda C. Ulmer
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Surgical smoke knowledge and practices before and after onset of COVID-19: A national survey of OR personnel
Background
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, new recommendations to evacuate surgical smoke were made due to unknown viral hazards. We evaluated perioperative registered nurses’ and surgical technicians/technologists’ knowledge of surgical smoke and determined smoke evacuation practices before and after the onset of COVID.
Methods
An electronic survey was developed, validated, and distributed nationally. Means and percentages were used for analysis of descriptive data. For comparison analyses, repeated measures were conducted on continuous variables with paired t-tests and mixed factor ANOVAs.
Results
We found gaps in knowledge regarding surgical smoke hazards, low evacuation device usage, lack of smoke evacuation policies, and little to no air quality or exposure monitoring in ORs. Smoke evacuation practices did not change significantly following the onset of COVID-19.
Conclusions
Implications for leadership, education, and research may provide perioperative personnel with improved work environments without surgical smoke hazards.
期刊介绍:
The objective of this new online journal is to serve as a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed source of information related to the administrative, economic, operational, safety, and quality aspects of the ambulatory and in-patient operating room and interventional procedural processes. The journal will provide high-quality information and research findings on operational and system-based approaches to ensure safe, coordinated, and high-value periprocedural care. With the current focus on value in health care it is essential that there is a venue for researchers to publish articles on quality improvement process initiatives, process flow modeling, information management, efficient design, cost improvement, use of novel technologies, and management.