This talk was presented at the 2018 SAGES Meeting/16th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery by Dean J Mikami during the Postgraduate Course: The Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy (FUSE) on April 11 2018
Keyword(s): active electrode, advance bipolar, AICD, alternate site injury, automated internal cardiac defibrillator, bipolar devices, capacitive coupling, coagulation, coaptation, collagen, colorectal surgery, cost, dessication, direct coupling, dispersive electrode, electrosurgical instruments, emergency surgery, ermergent surgery, forceps, Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy, FUSE, generator, head & neck surgery, inadvertent activation, laparoscopic colectomy, liver, monopolar, monopolar instruments, operative time, pacemaker, pedicle ligation, recurrent laryngeal nerve injury, RLN injury, scissors, target tissue, thermal spread, thyroid, tissue death, ultrasonic device, vessel compression, vessel sealing, voltage
Bipolar–27 sec
Citations–1:48 J Minim Invasive Gynecol 2008
Dessication/coagulation–3:41
Thermal spread–4:41
Ultrasonic instruments–5:19 J Surg Res 2017
Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2011
Advance bipolar pros & cons–8:29
Best practices–9:56
Conclusion–12:33