N.Y. Public Health Law 2830 – Surgical smoke evacuation
* § 2830. Surgical smoke evacuation. Every general hospital and ambulatory surgery facility licensed under this article shall adopt and implement policies to prevent exposure to surgical smoke through the use of an airborne contaminant evacuation system for each procedure that generates surgical smoke. This section does not apply to a facility that does not perform procedures that generate surgical smoke. As used in this section, "surgical smoke" means the by-product that is generated from the use of an energy generating surgical device, including, but shall not be limited to, surgical plume, smoke plume, bio-aerosols, laser-generated airborne contaminants, and lung damaging dust. As used in this section, "airborne contaminant evacuation system" means smoke evacuation equipment and technologies designed to capture, filter and remove surgical smoke at the site of origin and before the surgical smoke makes ocular contact or contact with the respiratory tract of any individual.
Terms Used In N.Y. Public Health Law 2830
- Hospital: means a facility or institution engaged principally in providing services by or under the supervision of a physician or, in the case of a dental clinic or dental dispensary, of a dentist, or, in the case of a midwifery birth center, of a midwife, for the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of human disease, pain, injury, deformity or physical condition, including, but not limited to, a general hospital, public health center, diagnostic center, treatment center, a rural emergency hospital under 42 USC 1395x(kkk), or successor provisions, dental clinic, dental dispensary, rehabilitation center other than a facility used solely for vocational rehabilitation, nursing home, tuberculosis hospital, chronic disease hospital, maternity hospital, midwifery birth center, lying-in-asylum, out-patient department, out-patient lodge, dispensary and a laboratory or central service facility serving one or more such institutions, but the term hospital shall not include an institution, sanitarium or other facility engaged principally in providing services for the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of mental disability and which is subject to the powers of visitation, examination, inspection and investigation of the department of mental hygiene except for those distinct parts of such a facility which provide hospital service. See N.Y. Public Health Law 2801
* NB There are 2 § 2830's