Talk to an Expert
Talk to an Expert
If you're looking for something, we can help! Give us a call at 1 (888) 228-7564 or shoot us an email anytime: Sales@IntegrisEquipment.com
Sterile Sheath for ES Pencil & Cord - box/25 - Symmetry/Bovie A910ST
Low-Temp Fine Tip, 10/box - Symmetry/Bovie AA00X
High Temp Fine Tip, 10/box - Symmetry/Bovie AA01X
Micro Temp Elongated Fine Tip, 10/box - Symmetry/Bovie AA29
Adjust Fine Tip, 10/box - Symmetry/Bovie AA02
High Temp Loop Tip, 10/box - Symmetry/Bovie AA03
High Temp Loop Tip, 10/box - Symmetry/Bovie AA03X
Low-Temp Elongated Fine, 10/box - Symmetry/Bovie AA04
Low-Temp Elongated Fine, 10/box - Symmetry/Bovie AA04X
High Temp Ext Shaft, 10/box - Symmetry/Bovie AA05
High Temp 5" Loop, 10/box - Symmetry/Bovie AA09
Adjust Fine Tip, 10/box - Symmetry/Bovie AA11
Elongated Fine Tip, 10/box - Symmetry/Bovie AA21
Elongated Fine Tip, 10/box - Symmetry/Bovie AA21X
Micro Temp Fine Tip, 10/box - Symmetry/Bovie AA25
Micro Temp Loop Tip, 10/box - Symmetry/Bovie AA27
Micro Temp Fine Tip, 10/box - Symmetry/Bovie AA90
Arthroscopic Hook 90, 5/box - Symmetry/Bovie AR00
A2250, A2350, A3250, & A3350 Bipolar Footswitch 1/each - Symmetry/Bovie BV-1254B
Derm 102 - 10 watt High Frequency Desiccator with Bipolar - Symmetry/Bovie Derm 102
Dermascout II Dermatascope - Symmetry/Bovie BVDS-6-02
Arthroscopic Hook 45, 5/box - Symmetry/Bovie AR01
Arthroscopic Acromioplasty, 5/box - Symmetry/Bovie AR02
Arthroscopic Menisectomy, 5/box - Symmetry/Bovie AR03
Electrosurgery is the application of a high-frequency electric current to biological tissue as a means to cut, coagulate, desiccate, or fulgurate tissue. Its benefits include the ability to make precise cuts with limited blood loss. Electrosurgical devices are frequently used during surgical operations helping to prevent blood loss in hospital operating rooms or in outpatient procedures.
In electrosurgical procedures, the tissue is heated by an electric current. Although electrical devices may be used for the cauterization of tissue in some applications, electrosurgery is usually used to refer to a quite different method than electrocautery. The latter uses heat conduction from a probe heated to a glowing temperature by a direct current (much in the manner of a soldering iron). This may be accomplished by direct current from dry-cells in a penlight-type device. Electrosurgery, by contrast, uses alternating current to directly heat the tissue itself. When this results in destruction of small blood vessels and halting of bleeding, it is technically a process of electrocoagulation, although "electrocautery" is sometimes loosely and nontechnically used to describe it.
Often electrosurgery is mistakenly referred to as diathermy. Unlike Ohmic heating by electric current passing through the conductive tissue in conventional electrosurgery, diathermy means dielectric heating, produced by rotation of molecular dipoles in high frequency alternating electric field. This effect is most widely used in microwave ovens which operate at gigahertz frequencies.
Electrosurgery is commonly used in dermatological, gynecological, cardiac, plastic, ocular, spine, ENT, maxillofacial, orthopedic, urological, neuro- and general surgical procedures as well as certain dental procedures.
Electrosurgery is performed using an electrosurgical generator (also referred to as power supply or waveform generator) and a handpiece including one or several electrodes, sometimes referred to as an RF Knife. The apparatus when used for cutting or coagulation in surgery is still often referred to informally by surgeons as a "Bovie," after the inventor.
***For any Electrosurgical Units, Generators, Instruments and Accessories not found on the website, please call or email!!***
888-228-7564
Clear recently viewed items