 
        
						Han-Yi Cheng 
	
					    												Graduate Institute of Biomedical Materials and Tissue Engineering, 
Taipei 110
People's Republic of China						                            
                            
						
 Research Article
												The Application of Advanced Nanostructured Film in Electrosurgical Device: Anti-Sticking Behavior and Thermal Injury 						
Author(s): Keng-Liang Ou and Han-Yi Cheng
Keng-Liang Ou and Han-Yi Cheng
             
						
												
				 Background: Minimally invasive surgery is performed using an endoscope and other instruments including the electrosurgical units. However, concerns including surgical smoke, tissue sticking, and thermal injury are remaining in electro surgery.
Aims: Accordingly, a newly developed electrosurgical electrode coating with hydrogenated Cu-incorporated diamond-like carbon (DLC-Cu) film is purposed to improve the instrument performance.
Methods: The morphologies of DLC-Cu surfaces were characterized using transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy. In this study, lesions were made on the liver lobes of adult rats, using a monopolar electrosurgical unit equipped with untreated stainless steel electrodes or treated-electrodes. Animals were sacrificed for evalu.. View More»
				  
												DOI:
												 10.4172/2157-7439.1000291