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A water-cooling eletrome on reducing tissue thermal damage

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Abstract

The increase of tissue temperature in monopolar electrome electrosurgery will damage the tissue inevitably. A water-cooling electrome is proposed to minimize tissue thermal damage. The coolant pours to the surgical tissue interface from the water-cooling electrome tip and takes away extra tissue heat. Consequently, the tissue damage decreases. A water-cooling electrome prototype is designed and comparative experiments with ordinary electrome are conducted. The experimental results show that the water-cooling electrome reduces the tissue damage at least 100 um compared with the ordinary electrome at the same output power. When the electrome power reaches 60 W, the average thermal lesion width of water-cooling electrome compared with that of ordinary electrome decreases 23.2%. The experiment results show that the water-cooling electrome is feasible.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages121-125
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781538660720
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 Oct 2018
Event15th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2018 - Changchun, China
Duration: 5 Aug 20188 Aug 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2018

Conference

Conference15th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChangchun
Period5/08/188/08/18

Keywords

  • Electrome
  • Thermal damage
  • Water-cooling

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