Electrosurgery generators are today’s standard of care for providing the energy needed to cut and coagulate tissue. Generators convert electricity into energy, which travels through a pencil/handpiece to the electrode…
symsurgbrandJuly 25, 2019
Electrosurgery makes use of high-frequency electrical current to cut, coagulate, desiccate, and fulgurate tissue and can be performed using either monopolar or bipolar-energy in conjunction with a specialized instrument.
symsurgbrandOctober 3, 2016
The terms electrosurgery and electrocautery are frequently confused, even amongst many professionals working in various healthcare related fields. And even though both of these procedures are applied within several medical…
symsurgbrandSeptember 5, 2016
The first line of the Hippocratic Oath is, "First, do no harm." At Bovie Medical, we are committed to medical professionals upholding this rule. We are here to help you…
symsurgbrandJune 6, 2016
Electrosurgery has been around since 1926, when William T. Bovie, a Harvard PhD first introduced the technique to a colleague who had previously been unsuccessful in removing a tumor from a patient's…
symsurgbrandJuly 4, 2016
More than eighty years ago, Dr. William Bovie invented a device that generated electrical current for use in surgery. Since then, Bovie, the company has used the science behind his…
symsurgbrandMay 2, 2016
Veterinary surgery has advanced beyond the traditional, conventional techniques, which focused on scalpels, for a myriad of surgical applications. Newer, energy-based techniques like electrosurgery have paved the way for faster and more efficient surgical…
symsurgbrandMarch 7, 2016
The same principles that apply to any electrosurgery procedure apply to electrosurgery for dermatology. The electrosurgical procedure involves using a special device, often simply called a “Bovie” after the man…
symsurgbrandDecember 7, 2015
Electrosurgical units are one of the most common pieces of electrical equipment in an operating room. Although injury from inadvertent energy transfer isn’t frequent, it does happen, so it’s important…
symsurgbrandOctober 5, 2015