Surg tech: chapter 6 part 2

The advantages of electrosurgery include the following:

Electrosurgery reduces total blood loss and bleeding is quickly controlled. It saves time since it is faster to use than applying suture ligatures (also called ties). Blended cutting current coagulates tissue as it is divided, reducing the need to stop and control bleeding. Coagulation current seals small spaces in the tissue and lymphatic vessels that would normally ooze fluid postoperatively, reducing resorption of toxic fluids, edema, and postoperative pain.

Components of the three-prong plug are:

First prong (positive) Second prong (negative) Third prong (ground)

Excision of an abnormal growth from the body or destruction of cells such as cardiac ablation

ablation

Transfers concentrated electrical current into another medium (e.g., electrical current transformed into thermal energy).

active electrode

Terms that refer to Intellectual property, these legal rights include:

copyright, trademark, registered, and patent-pending.

The negatively charged particles circling the nucleus of an atom.

electrons

Also called a grounding pad that the electrical current travels through back to the ESU

patient return electrode

The act of taking and using someone else's published work and claiming it is his/her work without proper citation or referencing.

plagiarism