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s it time for your surgeons to reconsider their favored
cutting and sealing devices? They can now choose from
among several methods to do the job: advanced bipolar,
ultrasonic, thermal tissue fusion and plasma devices.
Read on for an overview of recent innovations to these
energy-based essentials and insights on what makes them
more efficient and safer options.
S U R G I C A L E N E R G I E S
Cutting
Edge
Choices
Innovations
in cutting
and sealing
technologies
are reshaping
the field.
David Bernard
Senior Associate Editor
DETERMINING FACTORS Surgeons base their instrument deci-
sions on vessel size, risk of thermal spread and quality of seal.
Rhonda
Prewitt
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