Irrigation-coupled bipolar cautery unit: A practical, economical, and simple version

Irrigation-coupled bipolar cautery unit: A practical, economical, and simple version

Hemostasis is a fundamental principle of surgery for which electrocoagulation is universally used. Bipolar electrocautery has an advantage over monopolar electrocautery in terms of the precision of the extent of tissue coagulation and the lateral extent of thermal tissue injury. However, secondary to the thermal changes induced in the tissue due to electric current passage, there is charring of...

Neuroprotection due to irrigation during bipolar cautery.

OBJECTIVE To test whether irrigation during bipolar cautery confers thermoprotection from neuronal injury. DESIGN A rat animal model (15 rats for each treatment group) was used to test the thermoprotective effects of irrigation during bipolar cautery. In this model, the sciatic nerve was exposed, and a 1-second stimulus was applied using bipolar cautery forceps at 40 or 20 W placed directly o...

Comparison between Silk Ligation and Bipolar Cautery in Tonsillectomy

Background: Tonsillectomy is a commonly performed surgical procedure. There are several operative methods but the superiority of one over the other has not been clearly demonstrated. The aim of this study was to compare the morbidity associated with tonsillectomy using two different techniques for hemostasis – silk ligation versus diathermy. Material and Methods: This was an experimental study ...

Portable eye irrigation unit.

Economical Transformations of Structured Data (Extended Version)

Reliability of large-scale hardware and software systems often depends on the correctness of the underlying structured data. Examples of structured data include heap-allocated linked data structures, files, and program states in software, and netlists and simulator states for modeling hardware. In this paper, we focus on automatically transforming structured data to make it satisfy certain prop...