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Easy-to-use electrocautery smoke evacuation device for open surgery under the risk of the COVID-19 pandemic
1Department of General Surgery, Halic University School of Medicine, Sutluce, Istanbul, Turkey.
Objective:
This study was performed to introduce an easy method of surgical smoke evacuation for patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 undergoing emergency surgery.
Methods:
An easy, inexpensive, protective, and practical surgical smoke evacuation device/system was developed and is herein described.
Results:
The use of this surgical smoke evacuation device/system in open surgery is convenient and effective. It allows for easy, economic, useful, and protective surgical smoke evacuation.
Conclusions:
COVID-19 infection causes direct mortality and morbidity, and its incidence has recently increased. Protection from electrosurgery-related smoke is recommended particularly during the current pandemic. This surgical smoke evacuation device/system is easy to use and provides a convenient and effective method of smoke evacuation during both open surgery and all cauterization interventions.
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