and you can only pass it off the
field at the head of the patient.
Other than that, it works great.
Ms. Fournier is hoping that her
surgeons will be impressed when
they trial new devices with built-
in or clip-on tips that suction up
surgical smoke as it's produced.
The quiet devices look and feel
like a standard ESU pencil.
She looked in on an orthopedic
surgeon trialing the device during
a shoulder replacement. "You
could just see how well it was
working," she says. "You couldn't
smell smoke in the air."
Then a bump in the road. The
pencil's built-in smoke evacuator
has a thicker-than-normal tip that
made it difficult for the surgeon
to maneuver as he got deeper into
the tight spaces of the shoulder.
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Ms. Fournier is hoping that
her surgeons will be impressed
when they trial new devices
with built-in or clip-on tips
that suction up surgical smoke
as it's produced.
