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Electrosurgical safety: pads, stray current, fire and implants

Explain how return electrode burns, alternate-site burns, capacitive coupling, surgical fires and implant interference happen, what the generator and the engineer do about each, and why ordinary mains leakage tests do not cover HF hazards.

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