Requires general hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities to adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to by-products generated from the use of an energy generating surgical device, including, but not limited to, surgical plume, smoke plume, bio-aerosols, laser-generated airborne contaminants, and lung damaging dust through use of an airborne contaminant evacuation system.

AB 9974 Requires general hospitals and ambulatory surgery facilities to adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to by products generated from the use of an energy generating surgical device, including, but not limited to, surgical plume, smoke plume, bio aerosols, laser generated airborne contaminants, and lung damaging dust through use of an airborne contaminant evacuation system

New York 2021-2022 General Assembly

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Introduced 04/27/2022

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