A Low-cost, Safe, and Effective Method for Smoke Evacuation in Laparoscopic Surgery for Suspected Coronavirus Patients

Ann Surg. 2020 Jul;272(1):e7-e8. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000003965.

¹ Department of General Surgery, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
² Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.
³ Department of Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS-Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Welcome EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS), University College London, London, UK.
⁵ Department of General Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Minimally Invasive Surgery Center, Shanghai, P. R. China.
⁶ Section for Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

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MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control*
Cross Infection / prevention & control*
Equipment Design
Equipment Safety
Humans
Infection Control / methods*
Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional / prevention & control*
Laparoscopy / methods*
Operating Rooms
Pandemics / prevention & control*
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control*
SARS-CoV-2
Smoke / prevention & control*
Surgical Equipment
Ventilation / economics*
Ventilation / methods*