Smoke Evacuation During Electrosurgery

N.C. DuchateauDepartment of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen, campus Middelheim Antwerp, BelgiumView further author information

N.A.P. KomenDepartment of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen, campus Middelheim Antwerp, Belgium

S.D.M. ColpaertDepartment of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen, campus Middelheim Antwerp, Belgium

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The article shortly describes the negative side-effects of electrocoagulation used during surgery and proposes a new modality that allows suction of smoke during electrosurgery that is cheap and easy to construct with items already present on the operating table.

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N. C. Duchateau, M.D. Monica-Hospital - Campus Middelares F. Pauwelslei 1 B-2100 Deurne, Belgium, Tel.: 00/32/3/3205454 E-mail: [email protected]

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