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Throughout the following piece of work, the topic of surgical smoke within the theatre area will be discussed.
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Throughout the following piece of work, the topic of surgical smoke within the theatre area will be discussed. Due to the wide subject area, this will be minimised to discussing the following aspects, the detrimental effects of surgical smoke on staff, risk assessment and its processes and surgical smoke evacuation techniques. To assist with the ease of explanation, relevant definitions will be included. The topic of surgical smoke has been chosen due to the author having a particular professional interest in the subject area. Although practical experience of surgical procedures has been limited to the past three and a half years, a noticeable increase of the use of smoke producing equipment within the department has occurred, whereas the use of and availability of adequate smoke extraction equipment has not increased at the same rate. The author feels that as a result of the unparallel increase, there has been a dramatic increase...
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