Objective: To determine whether harmonic scalpel has any advantage over monopolar diathermy tonsillectomy or not in terms of blood loss, duration surgery, pain scores and slough separation time. Study Design: Double Blind Cross Sectional study. Setting: Faisalabad Medical University Affiliated Institutions. Period: April 2022 to September 2022. Material & Methods: Seventy patients were sele...

Diathermy plays an integral part in most operations, either for dissection or coagulation, and it is used on a regular basis by surgeons of all specialties. Even though modern diathermy equipment is considered to be safe, accidents still do happen. These accidents particularly occur if the operation is performed in emergency situations in which the patient’s clinical condition is urgently fatal...

Objective: To compare the frequency of post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage and severity of pain by Dissection and Diathermy method of tonsillectomy. Material and Methods: All the cases (100) that presented during six months of duration were included in the study by Simple Random Sampling in the Department of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, Holy Family Hospital, Rawalpindi from November 2009 to April 2...

thermy. In writing the present volume the author has been assisted by nine collaborators. The necessity for this division of labour is due to the large amount of clinical knowledge which has been acquired in the treatment by diathermy methods of diseases of the special regions, and the increasing employment of the cutting arc. Mr. A. H. Burgess has written the chapter on electrosection. Mr. Dou...

BACKGROUND Shortwave diathermy (SWD) and microwave diathermy (MWD) are frequently used by physical therapists to treat musculoskeletal conditions. The therapeutic benefits are usually associated with an increase in tissue temperature; however, there is no consensus on the changes in blood flow. OBJECTIVES 1) To evaluate the behavior of temperature and arterial blood flow after the application...

conclusions diathermy incision is a safe and expedient technique. it takes less time than scalpel incision and loss of blood is also lower during incision. diathermy is associated with lesser post-operative pain and complications than the scalpel incision. diathermy should be method of choice in general elective surgery. objectives the aim of this study was to examine incisional time, blood los...