Return Electrodes - Rem Contact Quality Monitoring System; Patient Return Electrode Considerations - Covidien ForceTriad User Manual

5. Select settings for the procedure.
6. Step on the appropriate footswitch to deliver monopolar power.
If a Monopolar 1 footswitching has not been enabled at the system level from the
features menu or at the local level from the mode tab, the following notice appears.
7. Enable Monopolar 1 footswitching by touching the button with the green check mark.
Return Electrodes – REM Contact Quality
Monitoring System
Notice
Only contact quality monitoring system patient return electrodes can be used with the ForceTriad
Energy Platform.

Patient Return Electrode Considerations

Warning
It is not possible to foresee what combination of current and duty cycle may be safely used in every
situation, such as when higher currents and/or longer duty cycles are used on procedures such as
tissue lesioning, tissue ablation, tissue vaporization, and procedures where conductive fluid is
introduced into the surgical site. Under these conditions a greater risk may exist that the heating
under a fully applied return electrode may be high enough to injure the patient.
When using a Covidien energy platform or a patient return electrode during these types of surgical
procedures, the user should seek written guidance in the form of detailed user instructions from
the manufacturer of the active accessory regarding the currents and duty cycles that can be
expected. In some instances, the application of additional patient return electrodes may help
mitigate the increased risk.
During monopolar electrosurgery, a patient return electrode is always required to safely
recover the current that flows through the patient's body and return it to the energy
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