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s/l PK cautery?-sm - anon
Posted: Sep 20, 2011
This is a robotic assisted hysterectomy. The bipolar appeared to not function properly, and so they switched to "pure PK cautery." I've been searching and am not finding anything. Thanks in advance!
was also mentioned as PK pure cut - anon
[ In Reply To ..]nm
nevermind, blanked it-nm - anon
[ In Reply To ..]nm
PK stands for PlasmaKinetic, a type of pulsed - laser cautery. See link.
[ In Reply To ..]http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/109264203322656441?journalCode=lap
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