Presented by Daniel M Herron 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, bipolar, bleeding, bowel, burn, camera, cautery, coagulation, current diversion, dispersive electrode, electrosurgery, energy sources, eschar, fellow, fulguration, Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy, FUSE, Harmonic scalpel, imaging, laparoscope, lateral thermal spread, light cord, mechanical wave energy, O.R. fires, resident, residual heat, short gastrics, spleen, stomach, technique, thermal injury, ultracision, ultrasonic energy, ultrasonic scalpel, ultrasound energy, vaporization, vessel ligation, vessel sealing
Cautery–1:20
Mechanical wave energy–2:19
Ultrasound energy–3:13
Cutting vs coag–8:22
Lateral thermal spread–10:08
Residual heat injury–10:45
Citation–11:11 J Urol 2007
Take home points–11:40