According to recent literature, electrosurgery is used for cutting and coagulating tissue in eight out of ten (80%) surgeries performed today.1 In fact, the use of electrosurgery is so common in [...]
Electrosurgery makes use of high-frequency electrical current to cut, coagulate, desiccate, and fulgurate tissue and can be performed using either monopolar or bipolar-energy in conjunction with [...]
The terms electrosurgery and electrocautery are frequently confused, even amongst many professionals working in various healthcare related fields. And even though both of these procedures are [...]
Electrosurgery has been around since 1926, when William T. Bovie, a Harvard PhD first introduced the technique to a colleague who had previously been unsuccessful in removing a tumor from a [...]
More than eighty years ago, Dr. William Bovie invented a device that generated electrical current for use in surgery. Since then, Bovie, the company has used the science behind his [...]
According to a review by the Journal of Hospital Infection, over 500,000 people are exposed to surgical smoke plumes each year. These smoke plumes can be the byproduct of electrosurgical or [...]
The same principles that apply to any electrosurgery procedure apply to electrosurgery for dermatology. The electrosurgical procedure involves using a special device, often simply called a [...]
Electrosurgical units are one of the most common pieces of electrical equipment in an operating room. Although injury from inadvertent energy transfer isn’t frequent, it does happen, so it’s [...]