ArticleAnnals of biomedical engineering2021
Comparison of Surgical Smoke Generated During Electrosurgery with Aerosolized Particulates from Ultrasonic and High-Speed Cutting.
Article in Annals of biomedical engineering, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- The Nursing Effect of PRECEDE Management on Occupational Exposure to Surgical Smoke: Based on a Randomized Controlled Study.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2022Trial
- Comparative in vivo assessment of surgical smoke particle exposure from different energy modalities during gynecologic laparoscopy.Archives of gynecology and obstetrics · 2026Article
- Development of a new suction instrument to reduce surgical smoke exposure in the operating room.Frontiers in medical technology · 2026Article
- A numerical and experimental study of light obscuration in laparoscopy.BMC surgery · 2025Article
- A machine learning optimized Dielectric Ultra-focused Oscillatory (DUO) electrode for low temperature electrosurgery.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Surgical smoke and its components, effects, and mitigation: a contemporary review.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2024Review
- Surgical smoke: a matter of hygiene, toxicology, and occupational health.GMS hygiene and infection control · 2024Review
- Smoke analysis of a new surgical system that applies low-temperature plasma.Annals of translational medicine · 2022Article
- Laser Bone Shaping: Current Capabilities and Future Applications in Knee Arthroplasty.JB & JS open accessReview
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Abstract
"Surgical smoke" is an airborne by-product of electrosurgery comprised of vapour and suspended particles. Although concerns exist that exposure may be harmful, there is a poor understanding of the smoke in terms of particle size, morphology, composition and biological viability. Notably, it is not known how the biological tissue source and cutting method influence the smoke. The objective of this study was to develop a collection method for airborne by-product from surgical cutting. This would enable comprehensive analyses of the particulate burden, composition and biological viability. The method was applied to compare the electrosurgical smoke generated (in the absence of any evacuation mechanism) with the aerosolized/airborne by-products generated by ultrasonic and high-speed cutting, from bone and liver tissue cutting. We report a wide range of particle sizes (0.93-806.31 μm for bone, 0.05-1040.43 μm for liver) with 50% of the particles being <2.72 μm (~PM
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