Electrosurgical Electrode Tips
ESU Tips · Bovie Tips · Cautery Tips · Needle-Tip Electrode · Extended Blade Electrode · Long ESU Tip · Active Electrode
Interchangeable metal tips with an insulated shaft that push into the electrosurgeryee-LEK-troh-SUR-jer-eeUsing high-frequency electric current through a handheld tool to cut tissue or seal bleeding vessels during surgery.Full entry pencil. Shapes include the standard flat blade, fine needle, ball and loop, in standard and extended (long) lengths. Many have a nonstick coating.
On the table
What it does and the lengths it comes in.
What it’s for
Changes what the pencil does and how far it reaches. A fine needle tip gives precise cutting and coagulationkoh-ag-yuh-LAY-shunThe process by which blood changes from a liquid into a gel, forming a clot.coagul clot-ation processFull entry in small areas; extended blade and ball tips reach deep tissue. The scrub keeps the requested tips on the field and swaps them as the case needs.
Lengths and variants
Flat blade (general cutting and coagulationkoh-ag-yuh-LAY-shunThe process by which blood changes from a liquid into a gel, forming a clot.coagul clot-ation processFull entry ), loop (biopsy and cutting), fine, coarse, blunt and angled needles, ball (fulguration), and long versions of the blade and ball for deep tissue.
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- Before the case
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- During the case
Caution
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- After the case
Care and reprocessing
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4 sources
- Nemitz R. Surgical Instrumentation: An Interactive Approach. 3rd ed. Chapter 2 (Basic Instruments), p. 21
- Fuller JK. Surgical Technology: Principles and Practice. 8th ed. Chapter 15 (Energy Sources in Surgery), p. 298
- Rothrock JC. Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery. 17th ed. Chapter 8 (Surgical Modalities), p. 222, 225
- honsungmed.en.made-in-china.com
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