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DISPERSIVE ELECTRODE

Typical Number in Hospital: Cost Bands: References: 4

This is another term used for the indifferent electrode applied to the buttocks or strapped round the leg during electrosurgery (surgical diathermy) to draw off the current applied to the surgical site by an active electrode.

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