JAMA Surgery • Vol 156 • No 9
Assessing the Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission via Surgical Electrocautery Plume
May 2021 • Leigh J. Sowerby, Anthony C. Nichols, Richard M. Gibson, Doron D. Sommer, Corey C. Moore, Douglas D. Fraser, Eric J. Arts
This quality improvement study used a nonhuman subject research approach to examine whether SARS-CoV-2 from aerosolized virus is present in and potentially transmissible from a electrocautery plume in surgery.