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3 | 3 | LCO No. 2415 1 of 1 | |
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5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5997 | |
6 | 6 | January Session, 2021 | |
7 | 7 | LCO No. 2415 | |
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10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH | |
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13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
14 | 14 | REP. YOUNG, 120th Dist. | |
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18 | 18 | AN ACT CONCERNING SURGICAL SMOKE. | |
19 | 19 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
20 | 20 | Assembly convened: | |
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22 | 22 | That the general statutes be amended to require each hospital with 1 | |
23 | 23 | surgical services and each ambulatory surgical center to adopt and 2 | |
24 | 24 | implement, on or before January 1, 2023, a policy that requires the 3 | |
25 | 25 | elimination of surgical smoke via the use of a surgical smoke evacuation 4 | |
26 | 26 | system during any surgical procedure that is likely to generate surgical 5 | |
27 | 27 | smoke. 6 | |
28 | 28 | Statement of Purpose: | |
29 | 29 | To protect surgeons, operating room personnel and patients from the | |
30 | 30 | dangers of surgical smoke. |