Electric Scalpel Surgery

A hospital patient has died after being set on fire during surgery in romania.

Electric scalpel surgery.

For many procedures it is an instrument that is used much more than the conventional scalpel. An electric scalpel also called not quite exact the diathermy knife. The correct term is electrosurgical. A wide variety of electric scalpel options are available to you such as the basis of surgical instruments.

Diathermy is the term given to remote heating for example using microwaves. It is not clear how surgeons adopted this inappropriate name. The harmonic scalpel is a surgical instrument used to simultaneously cut and cauterize tissue unlike electrosurgery the harmonic uses ultrasonic vibrations instead of electric current to cut and cauterize tissue. Its benefits include the ability to make precise cuts with limited blood loss.

Image caption the surgeons not pictured used an electric scalpel after applying alcohol based disinfectant. A 66 year old woman who was undergoing surgery in romania to remove tumors in her pancreas died after an electric scalpel set her on fire during the procedure the guardian reported. To identify the incidence of ssi and other complications of the operative wound among patients undergoing elective abdominal gynecological surgery when using electric scalpels for skin incisions and for subcutaneous incisions. Electric cautery does not reduce blood loss in primary total knee arthroplasty compared with scalpel only surgery a double blinded randomized controlled trial article jul 2018.

These terms are used in specific ways for this methodology see below.