Bovie Medical Insights

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 electrosurgical findings to develop a robust line of energy-based devices to support the physician office, surgery centers and highly demanding operating rooms. Electrosurgery devices are often misconstrued as a device only for complex surgical procedures; but the modern medical practice can now use low-watt electrosurgery devices for a variety of in-office procedures.

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Topics: Bovie Medical, Bovie, Aaron products, High Frequency Desiccator with Cut, High Frequency Desiccator

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 important to review safety measures and take the extra precautions to protect both your staff and your patients.

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Topics: Bovie Medical, Electrosurgery Misconceptions, Electrosurgery Safety, Bovie, Bovie Medical Corporation, electrosurgical equipment, Electrosurgical Safety Considerations

Homeowners have been changing out the traditional bulbs in their interior and exterior lighting fixtures from halogen bulbs, to florescent bulbs, and now LED bulbs. The reason is simply because of the overall cost savings and minimized need for replacement bulbs. It just makes sense that businesses, schools and medical centers would also begin jumping on the savings bandwagon by replacing those old incandescent & halogen light bulbs. But when it comes to a medical setting where literally hundreds of fixtures and thousands of bulbs may need to be replaced, are there additional advantages to this undertaking? We think so. Here are eight great reasons for converting to the MI 1000 LED light or and MI LED light.

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Topics: Bovie Medical, Operating Room, Bovie, medical lighting, LED lighting

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 a specialized instrument. Each of these two modalities has specific advantages and understanding the difference between the two can help you understand the differences in how they’re used.

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Topics: Benefits of Electrosurgery in Surgery, Bovie Medical, Electrosurgery Misconceptions, Bovie, Bovie Medical Corporation, Electrosurgical Generators

Energy Based Devices have revolutionized surgery.  They have not just made many procedures easier for physicians and shorter in duration for patients, they have also allowed surgeons to perform more challenging procedures to improve the lives of their patients.  Bovie Medical provides physicians with many of these devices, such as these five surgical tools that are making surgery a safer and more effective alternative to other forms of surgical intervention.

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Topics: energy based devices, Bovie Medical, Bovie

Mercy Ships is an international faith-based organization that uses hospital ships to perform life-changing surgeries and is dedicated to increasing access to healthcare in developing nations.  It was founded in 1978 by Don Stephens whose inspiration for the charity included the international hospital ship SS Hope.  Based on the fact that the vast majority of the world’s population lives near a sea port, Mr. Stephens determined that a floating hospital would be the most effective way to bring modern healthcare to the world’s most needy.  As a result, the hospital ship Africa Mercy brings modern diagnostic and surgical equipment, including x-ray, CT scan and electrosurgical units to ports in Africa to provide advanced surgical services to the poorest of the world’s poor. 

The Africa Mercy is a 16,500 ton hospital ship, 500 feet long, equipped with five state-of-the-art operating rooms as well as intensive care and ward bed space for up to 82 patients.  The vessel is staffed by 400 volunteers from 40 different nations.  Professionals including surgeons, dentists, nurses, health care trainers, teachers, cooks, seamen, engineers, and agriculturalists donate their time and skills to the effort.  This floating hospital typically spends 10 months at one port.  In recent years they visited the African countries of Sierra Leone, Togo and Guinea.  In 2013-14 the Africa Mercy docked in the Republic of Congo where the volunteer crew provided more than 2,500 free surgeries.  

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Topics: Bovie Medical, Bovie, Charities

It has been reported that at least 80% of all surgical procedures performed involve electrosurgery units (ESUs). The Bovie Electrosurgery Generator is used to cut or coagulate tissue using electrical current at varying voltages and currents. As with any invasive procedure, proper training in safety methods is mandatory for avoiding injuries to either the patients or the surgical team.

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Topics: electrosurgery, Bovie, pacemakers, ESUs

Any surgical procedure subjects the patient, and to some extent the staff, to certain risks of harm.  It is important for facilities and surgeons to take all reasonable care to reduce these risks.  Using the proper equipment is just one way to enhance risk reduction.

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Topics: ESU, surgical risk, MI 1000 LED, Smoke Shark II, Aaron 2250, Bovie

For over 80 years, the Bovie name has stood for innovation and a commitment to improving the quality of medical technology and patient care.  Traditionally known as manufacturers of electrosurgical generators, devices and associated products, today, we’re calling attention to the considerable benefits and advantages of our J-PLASMA™ technology over traditional laser surgical procedures.

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Topics: J-Plasma vs. Laser, Bovie, Electrosurgical Generators

The Masters has come and gone for another year.  Tiger didn’t win, and time marches on.  However, my purpose for this blog really goes back to last summer when Augusta National accepted its first two female members, Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore.  I saw the article then, thought about commenting on it but somehow didn’t.  I was pleased that another wall had come down, but was also pleased that Augusta did it on their terms.  I am sure you remember when there was an outcry regarding their policy and that a boycott of any company that advertised during the Masters was promised.  In the category of “it must be nice to be REALLY Rich” Augusta said fine, we won’t have any sponsors.  Having an exclusive club and making it difficult for anyone to get in is ok in my book.  Excluding someone because of race, religion or sex really doesn’t make any sense to me. 

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Topics: Sleep Well Promo, Bovie, Jerry Weintraub, Augusta