Safety; General - Gima DIATERMO 108 Manual De Instrucciones

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WARNING: Electrosurgery can be dangerous. Careless use of any element in the electrosurgical
system may subject the patient to a serious burn. Read and understand all warnings, precautions, and
directions for use before attempt to use any active electrode. Neither LED S.p.A., Frosinone, Italy
nor any of the subsidiary sales organisations can be considered responsible for personal, material or
consequential injury, loss or damage that results from improper use of the equipment and
accessories.
The accessories supplied with the unit have characteristics compatible with this supplied unit, they
could be incompatible with others electrosurgical units; the user must check, before connecting
other accessories to this unit, that they have characteristics of insulation compatible with those of
this unit (see Technical Characteristics).

2.1 GENERAL

The following precautions reduce the risk of accidental burnings.
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The whole surface of the patient plate must be placed on a well-vascularized muscle as next as
possible to surgical area. Avoid connecting the patient plate to bony protrusions, prosthesis,
cicatricial tissues, and parts of the body subjected to liquid accumulation or that present
subcutaneous adipose tissue. The part of the body must be without hair, dry and clean. Do not
use alcohol to clean the skin. The use of gelatinoid substances for the electrodes is not adviced.
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The patient does not must be in contact with metal parts that are connected to the earth or have
a large electrical coupling capacity to the earth (for example: operating-table or metallic
support). The use of antistatic sheets is advised.
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Avoid the skin to skin contact (for example between arm and body of the patient). Insert an
interface material like dry surgical gauze. Moreover, the parts of the body subjected to
abundant perspiration must be maintained dry.
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When high frequency electrosurgical unit and physiological monitoring devices are used at a
time in the same patient, all the monitoring electrodes, that has not resistive or inductive
elements tested in high frequency interference environment, must be as far as possible from the
electrodes of the electrosurgical unit. Avoid the use of monitoring needles.
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The connection to the electrodes should be located in such a way to avoid the contact both with
the patient and with other cables.
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The power level should be the lowest useful to the work to do.
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Always check the return plate whenever electrosurgical unit fails to produce the desired effect.
Reason for a low output power level, or for an incorrect functioning of the electrosurgical unit
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DIATERMO 108

2. SAFETY

(1) Treatment area (1) Active electrode - (2) Reference electrode
(3) Dry gauze - (4) Antistatic cloth
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