title: Smoke evacuation during electrosurgery.
abstract: The article shortly describes the negative side-effects of electrocoagulation used during surgery and proposes a new modality that allows suction of smoke during electrosurgery that is cheap and easy to construct with items already present on the operating table.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen, Campus Middelheim Antwerp, Belgium. nathalie.duchateau@gmail.com
authors.forename: N C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Duchateau
authors.forename: N A P
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Komen
authors.forename: S D M
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Colpaert
mesh_terms: D004564:Electrocoagulation / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D012906:Smoke; D013396:Suction
chemical_list: D012906:Smoke