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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5997
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 2415
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
REP. YOUNG, 120th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING SURGICAL SMOKE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to require each hospital with 1
surgical services and each ambulatory surgical center to adopt and 2
implement, on or before January 1, 2023, a policy that requires the 3
elimination of surgical smoke via the use of a surgical smoke evacuation 4
system during any surgical procedure that is likely to generate surgical 5
smoke. 6
Statement of Purpose:
To protect surgeons, operating room personnel and patients from the
dangers of surgical smoke.