Minimize the Risk of Nicks

Outpatient Surgery Magazine, March 2011

Jury awards $2.2 Million in Defective Laparascopic Instrument Case.

Outpatient Surgery Magazine, Jan 2011

Shield Patients and Staff from Stray Electrical Current

"Active electrode monitoring is the ultimate protection against both insulation failure and capacitive coupling."

Supplement to Outpatient Surgery Magazine – October 2009

Laparoscopic Electrosurgical Complications: Stay Informed

"Active electrode monitoring technology prevents stray energy burns to patients during laparoscopy due to instrument insulation failure and capacitive coupling."

EndoNurse, April 2008

Eight Keys to Laparoscopic Surgery Safety

"Active electrode monitoring, or AEM, minimizes the risk of thermal burns from electrical current by automatically shutting off the ESU [electrosurgical unit] when its detects stray energies."

Supplement to Outpatient Surgery Magazine, March 2007

Your Refresher on ESU Safety

"Four tried and true steps
to prevent laparoscopic electrosurgical burns."

Outpatient Surgery, March 2007

Advancing Patient Safety in Laparoscopy: the Active Electrode Monitoring System

Patient &Quality Healthcare, May/June 2005

7 steps in electrosurgery

"No group of surgical instruments is used so frequently and understood so poorly as electrosurgery units"

Outpatient Surgery Magazine, June 2005

Safeguarding Patients From Stray Electrosurgical Burns

"With the AEM® system, the patient is NEVER at risk for stray electrosurgical burns due to insulation failure and capacitive coupling"

OR Today, Nov 2004

Electrosurgery Safety and Your Staff

"I'm a believer in selecting a unit with active electrode monitoring technology" – Vangie Dennis, RN, CNOR

Outpatient Surgery Magazine, September 2004

Prevention of laparoscopic surgical burns

"Encision, Inc. has developed
and patented a fail-safe technology called active electrode monitoring (AEM^®), which makes laparoscopic surgery safer."

Journal for Healthcare Quality, September/October 2004

Protecting Patients from Laparoscopic Burns

"You can prevent unintended laparoscopic burns by introducing
AEM to your facility."

Outpatient Surgery Magazine, August 2004

Managing a New Class of Electrosurgical Risk: Active Electrode Monitoring

"The danger stray electrosurgical burns represent to the patient mandates use of AEM technology for all laparoscopic procedures."

Infection Control Today, October 2000

"The hospital might also be criticized for its failure to employ certain available safety equipment, such as active electrode monitoring."

Journal of Healthcare Risk Management, Winter 1998