/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20110321_NDSSI_TB-378x82.gif

Subscriptions

Advertising

Resources

About Us

Contact Us

Create An Account Forgot Your Password?
Trouble logging in or creating an account? click here
Home This Month E-Weekly Newsletter Building a Facility Article Archive Second Opinions
Search:
Benchmarking
General Surgery
Accrediting/Quality
Anesthesia
Code/Bill/Reimburse
Building/Renovating
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120430_ISI_LB-154x100.jpg
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120126_APIC_LB-154x100.jpg
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120426_PDI_LB-154x100.gif
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120322_Soma_LB-154x100.gif
Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

Malpractice Verdicts Often Favor Physicians

Physicians come out on the winning end of 80% of malpractice claims that end in jury verdicts, according to researchers at Massachusetts General Hos...

Study: CT Colongraphy Effective in Finding Polyps

A CT-scan-based, laxative-free "virtual colonoscopy" may be as effective as standard colonoscopy in finding potentially cancerous polyps, according ...

Wrong-Site Prevention Video Shows the Right Way

Wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure surgery must be prevented at all costs. The 3 steps of the Joint Commission's Universal Protocol make ...

Archive > April, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 4

Practical Electrosurgery Buying Tips

Your surgeons will probably want an electrosurgery unit from a familiar manufacturer, but keep in mind who else handles these units.

Marlene Brunswick, RN, CNOR

An electrosurgery unit places the power of electrical cutting and coagulation at a surgeon's fingertips, but it's often your nurses who have their hands all over ESUs — assembling and plugging them in, adjusting the alarms and changing their settings at the surgeons' requests. So it's important when making a purchasing decision to balance your doctors' personal preferences and brand loyalties with such nurse-centric issues as safety, support and supplies.

Sign in to continue reading.
Email Address:
Password:
Categories: Not yet reviewed
Keywords:
ACE Blade; ACE Cutting System; AORN Conference. ACE; APC; Advanced; Advanced Cutting Effect; BiClamp; Blade; Bovie's; Cadillacs; Check; Conference. ACE; Constant Control Technology; Control Technology; Cutting Effect; Cutting Effect) System; Cutting System; Cutting? It; Dan O'Connor; Delivering; Designed; Dual RF; ESU; Effect; Effect) System; Electrosurgery; Electrosurgery System; Electrosurgical Generator; Elliquence's; Energy Platform; ErbeJet; ForceTriad Energy Platform; GP; GYN; Generation; Generator; Icon GP; International Surgitron Dual RF; LigaSure; Mega Power Electrosurgical Generator;... show all keywords
ACE Blade; ACE Cutting System; AORN Conference. ACE; APC; Advanced; Advanced Cutting Effect; BiClamp; Blade; Bovie's; Cadillacs; Check; Conference. ACE; Constant Control Technology; Control Technology; Cutting Effect; Cutting Effect) System; Cutting System; Cutting? It; Dan O'Connor; Delivering; Designed; Dual RF; ESU; Effect; Effect) System; Electrosurgery; Electrosurgery System; Electrosurgical Generator; Elliquence's; Energy Platform; ErbeJet; ForceTriad Energy Platform; GP; GYN; Generation; Generator; Icon GP; International Surgitron Dual RF; LigaSure; Mega Power Electrosurgical Generator; Megadyne's; O'Connor; Olympus PK; Peak's PlasmaBlade; PlasmaBlade; Platform; Power Electrosurgical Generator; Providing; Pulsar Generator; Pulse; RF; Settings; Simple; Software; Surgical Cutting? It; Surgitron Dual RF; System; Technology; USA VIO; VIO; ablation; accessories; account; adaptable; addition; adjust; adjusting; adjusts; advance; advisable; aerosolized; affords; alarms; algorithms; all-in-one; applications; approximately; area; argon; argument; arthroscopic; arthroscopy; assembling; assessment; attachments; attain; automatic; automatically; back; balance; basic; bells; benefit; bigger; biomedical; bipolar; bleeding; blend; bought; brand; brochure; buying; capacitive; capital; care; cart; cell-specific; central; changing; charring; choose; claims; clean; cleaning; clinical; close; coag; coagulate; coagulating; coagulation; collateral; communicating; company; comparable; comparisons; compatible; complications; components; compromised; conjunction; connect; connectivity; consistent; continuing; contracts; control; conventional; cornerstone; cost; counter; coupling; create; critical; current; cut; cuts; cutting; damage; decision; decrease; deep; default; defects; delivering; delivers; demands; design; designed; desired; detects; device; directions; directly; disposable; dosing; dripping; dual; ease; easily; easy; easy-to-set-up; easy-to-use; educational; effect; effective; effectively; efficiency; electrical; electrode; electrosurgery; electrosurgical; eliminates; emission; enables; energies; energy; engineers; enhanced; ensure; equipment; equipped; errors; exacting; expense; expenses; extensive; facilities; facility; fairly; faults; favor; features; feedback; feel; flexible; fluid; frequency; frequent; front; full-featured; functions; fusion; gauge; general; generation; generator; generators; glides; group; guides; handling; handpieces; hands; hazards; healing; healthy; helps; high; high-frequency; higher; identically; impedance; importance; important; in-services; incision; include; including; influence; informational; initial; injuries; input; inside; inspecting; inspection; instrument; insulation; integrated; intelligent; intended; interchangeable; interface; interrupted; intuitive; issue; knowing; land; laparoscopic; lengths; level; limits; line; loop; lot; low-temperature; loyalties; made; maintenance; make; makers; makes; making; manage; manufacturer; marketing; maximum; meet; minimal; minimize; minimizing; mistakes; mode; modes; monitor; monitoring; monitors; monopolar; month's; multiple; necrosis; needed; neglect; neural; niche; non-adherent; notify; nurse-centric; nurses; obtain; occasional; offer; once-over; ongoing; open; operates; operating; operation; operational; optimize; options; order; output; pad; panel; pass; pencil; personal; personnel; piece; places; plasma; play; plugging; point; potential; power; powerful; powers; pre-loaded; precise; precisely; precision; preferences; prevent; price; probability; probes; procedure; process; products; program; proprietary; provide; providing; proximity; pulse; pulsed-plasma-mediated; purchase; purchasing; push; put; quick; radiofrequency; radiowave; readily; recognized; reduce; reduces; reducing; regular; repair; replace; representatives; reprocessing; requested; resection; response; results; return; reusable; risk; role; room; rooms; safety; sales; save; scalpel; scalpel-like; scalpels; service; set; settings; setup; sharpless; sharps; shoulder; shut; similar; simple; site; size; small; soft; solid; sparing; special; specialty; speed; spread; staff; standard; standards; stands; starting; statement; stay; steak; sterile; stock; stray; strive; suffer; supplies; supply; support; surgeon's; surgeons; surgery; surgical; switch; switches; system; tailored; team; technology; tension; terms; thermal; thing; times; tissue; touchscreen; traditional; training; trauma; trials; type; unit; units; unparalleled; unrivaled; unveiled; upgraded; usability; user-friendly; users; utilizes; variable; variety; vendor; verify; vessel; visual; voltage; wands; warning; waterjet; waveforms; ways; wide; work; wound

© Copyright Herrin Publishing Partners LP. REPRODUCTION OF THIS COPYRIGHTED CONTENT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. We encourage LINKING to this content; view our linking policy here.

PRODUCT & SERVICE RESOURCES
Did You See This?
A showcase of products and services geared to make your facility better.

Architects' Showcase
Is a beautiful, efficient new facility in your future?
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120426_ChristieMedical_AR-300x250.jpg
Other Articles That May Interest You
How Effective are Your Infection Prevention Efforts?
7 Practical Tips for Improving Insufflation Safety
These easy-to-implement changes reduce the risks of cross-contamination, laparoscopic hypothermia and gas embolism.
InstaPoll: Have You Converted to EMRs Yet?