“Current thoughts” in electrosurgery

Electrosurgery

A Review of Current Thoughts*

Ventricular septal defect, alone or in combination with other cardiac malformations, is the commonest form of congenital heart disease in man. Morphogenically, the ventricular septum is composed of three parts: (a) the conal septum, (b) the septum of the endocardial cushions, and (c) the muscular septum proper. Consequently, most cono-truncal abnormalities (transposition of the great arteries, ...

Electrosurgery OR Bipolar electrosurgery OR Monopolar electrosurgery OR Monopolar bipolar electrosurgery OR Electrocautery

1 Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. 2 Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brazil. 3 Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Londrina, PR, Brazil. ABSTRACT Objective: To identify the composition of the smoke produced by electrocautery use during surgery. Method: Integrative review with search for primar...

Current Thoughts on Mechanisms of Hyperoxic Seizures

Electric discharge during electrosurgery

Electric discharge utilized for electrosurgery is studied by means of a recently developed method for the diagnostics of small-size atmospheric plasma objects based on Rayleigh scattering of microwaves on the plasma volume. Evolution of the plasma parameters in the near-electrode sheaths and in the positive column is measured and analyzed. It is found that the electrosurgical system produces a ...