These plasma scalpels would cauterize flesh as they slice. “It's like a lightsaber,” says Washington, D.C., surgeon Jerome Canady, who invented one of the first surgical plasma cutters.

As Scientific American went to press, Canady and his colleagues were due to perform the first surgery of their trial in late October 2019. They aim to use the plasma scalpel on 20 patients with ...

a surgical team successfully used the Canady Helios TM Cold Plasma Scalpel (CHCPS) for the selective killing of cancerous tissue during the groundbreaking surgery. The surgery was performed on ...

The Canady Helios™ Cold Plasma Scalpel is a cold atmospheric plasma ... M.D., designed the clinical and treatment protocols, and guided the surgical team through the procedure.

The goal was to integrate cold plasma with Canady Hybrid Plasma electrosurgical scalpels already used in operating rooms because these scalpels allow for bloodless surgery. This is due to their ...

This device is called the Canady Helios Cold Plasma System and Scalpel. It's made up of a cold ... radiation and surgery," says Jerome Canady, leader of the team that developed the device.

The patient was first diagnosed in January 2016. The surgery was the first of its kind in the world using USMI’s Canady Hybrid Plasma Scalpel (FDA cleared) to remove the tumor and then using the ...

Cold atmospheric plasma is a relatively new technique that utilizes a tool that generates a sort of plasma scalpel, except this torch is not ... It is already proven effective as a complement to ...

Plasma Surgical was formed in 2000 ... the ability to cut and simultaneously coagulate tissue using a ‘virtual scalpel’ or plasma stream in place of a mechanical blade. During the last ...

Researchers have developed a scalpel with built-in force-measuring sensors and coupled it with a machine-learning model that could streamline how doctors are trained to perform surgery and pave ...

“We believe that these findings support the use of 4F-PCC over plasma for bleeding management in cardiac surgery,” he said. Around 15% of patients who undergo cardiac surgery experience ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Cold atmospheric plasma technology, currently the only way to remove microscopic cancer tumors remaining from surgery, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug ...