maxium® smart C Electrosurgery Unit with maxium® smart Beam
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Information about the limitations of the auto-start function
Danger of injury by burns!
In endoscopic surgery, do not use the auto-start function!
For technical reasons, a bipolar output cannot be associated with a cutting current and a coagulation
current with auto-start function at the same time. Selection of a coagulation current with
Auto Start
will
automatically deselect the parallel cutting channel, see also section 10.2 “Selection and Deselection of
Working Channels”, page 53. Conversely, selection of a cutting current will deselect the parallel coagulation
channel, if a current with Auto Start is selected there. If the coagulation channel is selected again, then the
original current appears without auto-start function.
Particularly in endoscopy the auto-start function carries the risk of burns and coagulation necroses due to
unnoticed and unintended automatic activation of HF current in the placement of endoscopic instruments.
For this reason, the auto-start function of the maxium® smart C is equipped with some restrictions which
are intended to exclude inadvertent activation of this function as far as possible:
•
In none of the factory-preset programs an auto-start function is enabled. This is to ensure that users
not yet familiar with this feature cannot be exposed to a risk of uncontrolled HF emission which they
are unaware of. If a user wants to deliberately use a current with auto-start function, he/she can
manually select it and save the program under a new name, see section 10.5.4 “Saving a program
under a new name”, page 59.
•
Selection of a program comprising a current with auto-start function invokes a confirmation dialog
asking the user to confirm or reject the auto-start function. If the user declines, the program is not
loaded and the previous menu item is opened.
