Electrosurgical Burns at Skin Temperature Probes
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- 1 July 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Anesthesiology
- Vol. 47 (1) , 72-74
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00000542-197707000-00017
Abstract
Improperly grounded electrosurgical machines can burn the [human] skin at the sites of monitoring electrodes. Third-degree burns produced at the site of a cutaneous temperature probe placed to monitor skin temperature during total hip replacement for which an electrosurgical machine was used prompted examination of the problem.Keywords
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