June, 2005

7 steps in electrosurgery

No group of surgical instruments is used so frequently and understood so poorly as electrosurgery units.  To wit: According to a Feb. 2005 survey by ECRI, 30 percent of its facility members reported that their patients had suffered electrosurgical burns – and 30 percent of those respondents didn’t know how the injuries had occurred.  To help you better understand your ESU – and to help make your electrosurgical practice safer – here are seven concerns and challenges of electrosurgery, and what you can do to meet them.