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Contact Congress Over Drug Shortage Issues

A Kentucky congressman is urging surgical facilities to contact their members of Congress and request that they sign his letter demanding changes to...

N.J. Posts ASC Inspection Reports Online

State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

Are Opioids Necessary?

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Archive > February, 2005 Vol. VI, No. 2

Thinking of Buying...Electrosurgical Generators

Power, waveforms, extra features and disposables comprise the purchasing keys.

Scotty Farris

We can trace electrosurgery as we know it today to the work of William T. Bovie, PhD, a physicist who pioneered research in high-frequency electrical power. In 1924, fellow Harvard academic Harvey W. Cushing, MD, a neurosurgeon and professor of surgery, saw Dr. Bovie's device in action: "I happened to see Dr. Bovie's electrified loop being used for the purpose of bloodlessly scooping out bits of malignant tissue for examination," he wrote. "I realize that here was a new tool which might possibly be utilized." The Liebel-Flarsheim Company in 1927 manufactured the first commercially produced electrosurgical unit of a Bovie design.

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