2020 年 86 巻 889 号 p. 20-00273
In the past several decades, electro medical equipment has been developing to enhance surgical technologies. Using electro surgical knife is very common in everywhere of medical scene now a days. An electro surgical knife is consisted with power supply, metal tip and return electrode. In the case of using it to stop bleeding by coagulation mode, the tip surface is frequently covered by coagulated blood, then it is not able to discharge again. It means that the surgeons should replace it to new metal tip to continue surgical operation. In order to overcome this problem, some tips are covered by silicon type coating to prevent coagulated blood adhesion. However, it still has problems of continuous using, low heat invasiveness for human organs and how design such tip surface. In this study, three different type coating tips and a non-coated tip were prepared to compare temperature rising abilities and coagulated blood adhesion on the surface. As a result, fully surface coated types and blade’s edge uncovered type realized excellent prevention ability of blood coagulation adhesion onto surface. Especially for the side edge uncovered type, it exhibited low temperature rising ability after the temperature exceeded 100 degree C. This result indicated that side edge uncovered type is one of the suitable design to prevent exceed temperature rising.
