Presented by Dean J Mikami at the PG Course: Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy (FUSE) held during the 2017 SAGES Annual Meeting in Houston, TX on Saturday, March 25, 2017
Keyword(s): active electrode, acute care surgery, advance bipolar devices, capacitive coupling, cautery, coaptation, colorectal surgery, current leakage, direct coupling, dispersive electrode, electromagnetic energy, fistula, Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy, FUSE, hypertensive, hysterectomy, impedance feedback, instrument, leak, mean burst pressure, mechanical energy, monopolar, pacemaker, short gastric, sleeve gastrectomy, tension, thermal spread, tissue sealing, trauma surgery, ultasonic, ureter, ureteral injuries, vessel, white line of Toldt
Surgical energy–57 sec
Bipolar–2:01
Potential bipolar injuries–3:16
Thermal spread–3:38
Current leakage–6:03
Advance bipolar pros & cons–6:32
Mechanisms–7:33
Mean burst pressure–9:24 Surg Endosc 2009
Best practices–10:23
Conclusion–13:14