Avoiding damage to transvenous leads—A comparison of electrocautery techniques and two insulated electrocautery blades.

Background: Electrocautery (cautery) can damage transvenous cardiac device leads. The purpose of this study was to compare lead damage from an insulated cautery blade when used with several different techniques that included coagulation (COAG) versus cutting (CUT) mode, perpendicular active edge (ac...

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Publicado en:Pacing & Clinical Electrophysiology Vol. 41; no. 12; pp. 1593 - 1600
Autores principales: Wasserlauf, Jeremiah, Esheim, Taiki, Jarett, Natasha M., Chan, Eric K.Y., Schaller, Robert D., Garcia, Fermin C., Knight, Bradley P.
Formato: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2018
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