Electricity in Endosurgery
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https://doi.org/10.18597/rcog.690Keywords:
Endosurgery, electricity, alternating current, cut, coagulation, fulguration, monopolar, bipolarAbstract
Although electrosurgery has been with us for decades, few surgeons received formal training in the nature of electricity and how the physical laws governing electricity affected its potential clinical application.
The erroneous belief that electrosurgery techniques increase scar formation or impair healing processes led surgeons to adopt other, more expensive energy sources.
A more thorough understanding of electrosurgical principles, coupled with modern electric equipment, with understandable readouts, superior methods of grounding, and finer instruments with improved shielding should lead to a wider and more informed use of electrosurgery.
Author Biography
Jaime Saavedra S.
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