Electric Scalpel Surgery

Image caption the surgeons not pictured used an electric scalpel after applying alcohol based disinfectant.

Electric scalpel surgery.

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. A hospital patient has died after being set on fire during surgery in romania. A wide variety of electric scalpel options are available to you such as the basis of surgical instruments. 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. 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. Diathermy is the term given to remote heating for example using microwaves. 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.

Its benefits include the ability to make precise cuts with limited blood loss. For many procedures it is an instrument that is used much more than the conventional scalpel. It is not clear how surgeons adopted this inappropriate name. The correct term is electrosurgical.

An electric scalpel also called not quite exact the diathermy knife.