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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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