OK HB1887

Requires hospitals, ambulatory surgical facilities, and outpatient surgical centers to adopt and implement policies preventing exposure to surgical smoke during procedures likely to generate it

Mandates use of smoke evacuation systems that capture and filter surgical smoke at the point of origin before it contacts the eyes or respiratory tract of room occupants

Defines surgical smoke as gaseous byproducts from energy-generating devices, including surgical plume, bio-aerosols, laser-generated airborne contaminants, and lung-damaging dust

Effective date: November 1, 2025