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REFERENCE TITLE: surgical smoke evacuation; requirements |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-fifth Legislature Second Regular Session 2022
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HB 2434 |
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Introduced by Representative Shah
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AN ACT
Amending title 36, chapter 4, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 36-434.01; relating to health care institutions.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 36, chapter 4, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 36-434.01, to read:
36-434.01. Outpatient surgical centers; hospitals; surgical smoke evacuation systems; definitions
A. Beginning July 1, 2023, each outpatient surgical center or hospital shall adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to surgical smoke by using a smoke evacuation system for each procedure that generates surgical smoke.
B. The department shall ensure compliance with this section during any onsite inspection and in response to any complaint received relating to a violation of this section.
C. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Smoke evacuation system" means smoke evacuation equipment and technologies designed to capture, filter and remove surgical smoke at the site of origin and to prevent surgical smoke from making ocular contact or contact with an individual's respiratory tract.
2. "Surgical smoke":
(a) Means the surgical plume that is generated from the use of an energy-generating surgical device.
(b) Includes smoke plume, bio-aerosols, laser-generated airborne contaminants and lung-damaging dust.