Kentucky Revised Statutes Title XVIII. Public Health § 216B.153.Surgical smoke evacuation system requirement

(a) “Energy generating device” means any tool that performs a surgical function using heat, laser, electricity, or another form of energy;

(b) “Smoke evacuation system” means smoke evacuators, laser plume evacuators, or local exhaust ventilators that effectively capture and neutralize surgical smoke at the site of origin and before the smoke can make ocular contact or contact with the respiratory tract of the occupants of the room; and

(c) “Surgical smoke” means the by-product, including surgical plume, smoke plume, bio-aerosols, laser-generated airborne contaminants, and other lung-damaging dust, that results from contact with tissue by an energy-generating device.