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Fundamentals for Use of Safe Energy

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Heat has been applied to tissue therapeutically for thousands of years to treat symptoms, ablate tumors, and control bleeding. In the 1920s, biophysicist William Bovie and neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing produced a widely adopted electrosurgical generator that could cut and coagulate tissue during surgery. The basic principles underlying Bovie’s machine have changed very little since then, and electrosurgery is ubiquitous in operating rooms, endoscopy suites, and clinics around the world. In the last decades, there has been a dramatic rise in the number and complexity of energy devices available, including radio frequency-based systems (e.g., bipolar devices, argon beam, and radio frequency ablation) and ultrasonic energy systems.

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  1. Department of Surgery, McGill University Health Care, 1650 Cedar Avenue, L9-412, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3G 1A4

    Liane S. Feldman MD

  2. Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

    Daniel B. Jones MD, MS, FACS (Professor in Surgery)

  3. Office of Technology and Innovation, Chief, Minimally Invasive Surgical Services, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

    Daniel B. Jones MD, MS, FACS (Vice Chair of Surgery)

  4. Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Health Alliance, 1493 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Steven D. Schwaitzberg MD (Chief of Surgery, Associate Professor of Surgery)

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Correspondence to Liane S. Feldman MD .

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  1. , Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, 1100 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19107, Pennsylvania, USA

    David S. Tichansky, MD, FACS

  2. Minimally Invasive Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine, Pasteur Drive 300, Stanford, 94305, USA

    John Morton, MD, MPH

  3. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical, Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School, Brookline Ave. 330, Boston, 02215-5400, Massachusetts, USA

    Daniel B. Jones

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Feldman, L.S., Jones, D.B., Jones, D.B., Schwaitzberg, S.D. (2012). Fundamentals for Use of Safe Energy. In: Tichansky, MD, FACS, D., Morton, MD, MPH, J., Jones, D. (eds) The SAGES Manual of Quality, Outcomes and Patient Safety. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7901-8_48

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