A high-frequency desiccator is an electrosurgical device which allows the physician to perform simple, outpatient procedures to treat a number of common skin lesions. Small superficial skin lesions such as small angiomas, nevi and skin tags are ideal candidates for this approach. Utilizing a treatment electrode that remains cool to the touch, electrical energy is transferred to the tissue causing excitation and effectively destroying the lesion with very little, if any, discomfort to the patient.
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Bovie Medical Corporation,
High Frequency Desiccator,
electrosurgical device
Warts are annoying and unsightly, but modern medicine is constantly devising new ways to treat them. Aside from chemical treatments, which can cause allergic reactions or blistering, physicians can rely on surgical methods with state-of-the-art devices to quickly and safely remove the growth. In the past, a blade may have been the only choice for wart removal. Today’s devices offer options for electrosurgery, laser treatment, and cryotherapy.
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Bovie Med,
electrosurgery,
Bovie Medical Corporation,
electrocautery safety,
wart removal
Innovations in cold plasma surgical technology are blazing the trail for a new age in electrosurgery technique. The latest devices are putting control back in the surgeon's hand, unveiling benefits that may not be so apparent at first glance.
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Surgical Safety,
J-Plasma,
Bovie Med,
Bovie Medical Corporation,
cold plasma,
J-Plasma vs ESU
The terms electrosurgery and electrocautery are frequently confused, even amongst many professionals working in various healthcare related fields. And even though both of these procedures are applied within several medical specialties, they are quite different in terms of both tools used and method of application.
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Bovie Medical,
Electrosurgery Safety,
Bovie Medical Corporation,
electrocautery safety,
Electrosurgery and Electrocautery Differences
Proper maintenance and attention of electrosurgical generators in medical or veterinary facilities is critical. The most important key to the maintenance program for your electrosurgery unit is to keep a regular schedule for the performance of maintenance tasks. Three factors for providing proper care are: knowing what to do, when to do it and who has the responsibility for it. The person in charge of maintaining the units must be given time in their regular schedule to perform the tasks.
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Bovie Medical,
Veterinary Electrosurgery,
Bovie Medical Corporation,
Electrosurgical Generators,
Electrosurgical Safety Considerations
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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Bovie Medical,
Electrosurgery Misconceptions,
Electrosurgery Safety,
Bovie,
Bovie Medical Corporation,
electrosurgical equipment,
Electrosurgical Safety Considerations
The term “energy-based devices” seems to be coming more and more popular, particularly in the medical industry as it relates to surgical devices. However, when we go on-line to look up “energy-based devices” we don’t find much. So, we thought we would put out a brief summary of what constitutes an “energy-based” device, particularly as it relates to surgical devices.
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energy based devices,
Bovie Medical,
Bovie Medical Corporation
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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Benefits of Electrosurgery in Surgery,
Bovie Medical,
Electrosurgery Misconceptions,
Bovie,
Bovie Medical Corporation,
Electrosurgical Generators
Over the years, as surgical procedures have evolved, so have the tools, instruments and devices used to deliver patient care. Veterinary surgical practices include a number of modalities that utilize energy based devices as the fundamental tools. Veterinarians can now harness various principles regarding electrons, photons and sound waves or radio frequency to transfer energy to the tissue of patients.
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Bovie Medical,
Veterinary Electrosurgery,
Bovie Med,
veterinary,
Cautery,
Bovie Medical Corporation,
Veterinary Surgery
Eyesight is probably the most prized of the five senses we humans enjoy. This is likely especially true for those of you in the upper portion of the country who are enjoying the fall colors about now. We are careful to protect our eyes because their function, once lost, may be very difficult to regain. And, the eyes are very pain sensitive even to small specks. That is why eye surgery is so fearful for many of us and also why so many ophthalmologists rely on the Aaron Ophthalmic Burr for many delicate procedures involving the eye.
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opthalmic burr,
aaron burr,
ophthalmologists,
eye surgery,
eyesight,
Bovie Medical Corporation
