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Technical note: electrosurgery active lead failures.

S R Docker·R Railton·M Nieman
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Abstract

A cause of electrosurgical burns in surgical procedures is faulty active leads. A survey of faults and modes of failures are reported. The design of a meter is given for use by a sterilizing department to enable leads to be checked. Using the criterion of two times the original resistance, 35 cables were found to be defective out of a population of about 200 cables. About half of these cables transmitted radio frequency (RF) power inefficiently: often power was intermittent and hot spots would develop. The commonest mode of failure was a break between the socket and the wire at the forceps end. Rejection criteria are reviewed and we suggest a resistance less than 0.3 omega.

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S R Docker, R Railton, M Nieman. Technical note: electrosurgery active lead failures.. https://doi.org/10.3109/03091908809012411

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