The Healing Process of Experimentally Produced Bleeding Lesions after Hemostatic Electrocoagulation with Simultaneous Instillation of Water

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Abstract
Fifty experimentally induced, standardized gastric bleeding lesions were successfully arrested in the dog using electrocoagulation with simultaneous instillation of water. The contact pressure of the coagulating electrode was kept almost constant by a spring mechanism. The coagulated lesions healed without secondary enlargement of the coagulation effect and without complication. No secondary perforations were observed. When coagulation was carried out at an output power .apprx. 30% higher than the minimum power necessary for reliable hemostatic coagulation, no complications were observed. Only with additional post bleeding arrest coagulation in excess of 10 s at this higher output, were 2 primary perforations produced in 2 out of 12 cases. The non-perforated remaining 10 lesions healed without complication. With additional coagulation (at power output setting 6 for 20 s, 8 cases and at power setting 7 for 10 s, 6 cases) no perforations were observed and healing was without complications. In animal experiments the therapeutic range for the arrest of bleeding using the electro-hydro-thermo-electrode is adequately large. The technique should be tested in clinical trials.