ESU-pencil-based smoke evacuation wands.
In our April 1997 issue (Health Devices 26[4]), we evaluated eight ESU-pencil-based smoke evacuation wands. For this issue, we have updated that study. We evaluated two new units and tested a redesigned version of one of the units from 1997. We also report on an additional unit that we didn't test but whose performance is comparable to that of a previously evaluated unit. We found the newly evaluated units to be Acceptable.
D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational; D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004598:Electrosurgery / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital; D005374:Filtration / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D009873:Operating Rooms; D012906:Smoke; D014481:United States
D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational; D012906:Smoke