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in the near future smoke evacuation will be mandated nationwide," says Ms. McNulty. "More awareness will spread with each state that becomes smoke-free." Local legislation can offer some credence to the studies you share and the efforts you make, but mandatory smoke evacuation isn't going to happen overnight in your state, if it happens at all. That's why it's important to keep pushing for the change you want to make hap- pen. "We had already gone almost smoke-free at our hospital," says Ms. Prince, referring to the mandatory smoke evacuation law legislators passed in her home state of Colorado last March. "Staff drove the removal of surgical smoke from our ORs. Their persistence and refusal to work with surgeons who did not use smoke evacuators completely changed the culture in our hospital." OSM D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 9 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y. N E T • 4 3 I've always felt like being exposed to surgical smoke was just part of the job. — Qing Zhou, RN, BSN, CNOR

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