Medicolegal aspects of surgical diathermy burns: A case report and review of the literature

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Demirçin S., Aslan F., Karagöz Y. M., Atılgan M.

ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL MEDICINE, cilt.21, sa.3, ss.173-176, 2013 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Derleme
  • Cilt numarası: 21 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2013
  • Doi Numarası: 10.4323/rjlm.2013.173
  • Dergi Adı: ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL MEDICINE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.173-176
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: diathermy, diathermy burns, electrosurgery, electrocautery, malpractice, ELECTROSURGERY
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Diathermy plays an integral part in most operations, either for dissection or coagulation, and it is used on a regular basis by surgeons of all specialties. Even though modern diathermy equipment is considered to be safe, accidents still do happen. These accidents particularly occur if the operation is performed in emergency situations in which the patient's clinical condition is urgently fatal and the members of the team could only focus to the surgical area. The false steps in monopolar diathermy application cause a situation called the diathermy burns.