Electric Scalpel Surgery

To identify the main risk factors for ssi among patients undergoing elective abdominal gynecological surgery.

Electric scalpel surgery.

Diathermy is the term given to remote heating for example using microwaves. 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. The correct term is electrosurgical. A cancer patient went up in flames during surgery in romania when doctors used an alcohol based disinfectant then touched her with an electric scalpel according to a new report.

These terms are used in specific ways for this methodology see below. It is not clear how surgeons adopted this inappropriate name. A hospital patient has died after being set on fire during surgery in romania. 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.

For many procedures it is an instrument that is used much more than the conventional scalpel. Its benefits include the ability to make precise cuts with limited blood loss. An electric scalpel also called not quite exact the diathermy knife. 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.

Electrosurgery is the application of a high frequency radio frequency alternating polarity electrical current to biological tissue as a means to cut coagulate desiccate or fulgurate tissue.