Commentary Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/anesthesia.1.001
Surgical smoke and SARS-CoV-2 transmission
Barry Swerdlow1,*
- 1Nurse Anesthesia Program, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, United States
Corresponding Author
Barry Swerdlow, swerdlow@ohsu.edu
Received Date: April 29, 2020
Accepted Date: May 28, 2020
Swerdlow B. Surgical smoke and SARS-CoV-2 transmission. J Clin Anesth Intensive Care. 2020; 1(1): 1-6.
Copyright: © 2020 Swerdlow B. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords
SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Surgical smoke, Smoke evacuation
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