"ADVANCING
PATIENT SAFETY
IN LAPAROSCOPY"
Patient
Safety &
Quality Healthcare,
May/June 2005 |
"Use
active electrode monitoring devices to monitor and actively
shield against stray electrosurgical current. Do not
use active electrode monitoring systems with capacitively
coupled patient return electrodes."
Hotline
News
December, 2003 |
"Shocking
information about Laporascopic Electrosurgery."
The
International Society for Gynecologic Endoccopy,
October 1999 |
"No
group of surgical instruments is used so frequently and
understood so poorly as electrosurgery units"
Outpatient
Surgery
Magazine, 2005 |
"Use
of active electrode shielding and monitoring minimizes
the risks of insulation failure and capacitive coupling
injuries."
AORN – 2004
Standards, Recommended Practices
and Guidelines
|
"Active
electrode montoring should be strongly considered for
all laparoscopic monopolar electrosurgery procedures."
Journal
of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons (JSLS),
July-September 1998
|
"Utilize … active
electrode monitoring to eliminate concerns about
insulation failure and capacitive coupling."
Valleylab,
Inc. in Principles
of Electrosurgery, ©1997
|
"We
...encourage use of electrode shielding (currently
the only such device on the market), during laparoscopic
monopolar electrosurgery."
ECRI/Health
Devices,
January 1995
|
"Consider
active electrode monitoring."
AAGL
Technical Bulletin, January 1995
|
