Georgia Commons31-7-23. Surgical smoke.
The only printed version. Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.
(a) As used in this Code section, the term “surgical smoke” means the gaseous by-product produced from the interaction of tools or heatproducing equipment used for dissection and hemostasis during surgical or invasive procedures.
(b) Each hospital and ambulatory surgical center shall adopt policies for the reduction of human exposure to surgical smoke.