Common uses and cited complications of energy in surgery

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3056-3072

  Sankaranarayanan, Ganesh ^a   Resapu, Rajeswara R ^a   Jones, Daniel B ^b   Schwaitzberg, Steven ^b,c   De, Suvranu ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Argon beam coagulation; Electrosurgery; Embolism; Fire; Harmonic scalpel; Laser; Minimally invasive surgery; Radio frequency ablation; Thermal damage; Ultrasonic

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; ARGON LASER; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; BILIARY TRACT HEMORRHAGE; BLEEDING; BURN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CAUTERIZATION; COLON DISEASE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COST; CUTTING; DESICCATION; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROSURGERY; EMPHYSEMA; ENERGY RESOURCE; FALSE ANEURYSM; GAS EMBOLISM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LASER; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; PACEMAKER REQUIREMENT; PHRENIC NERVE PARALYSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SAFETY; SEDATION; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SKILL; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERMAL INJURY; TRAINING; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULTRASONICALLY ACTIVATED SCALPEL; ULTRASOUND; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALS; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; BURNS; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; ELECTROSURGERY; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FIRES; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; PATIENT SAFETY; RADIO WAVES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 84885064899     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-013-2823-9     Document Type: Review

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