Description
Covidien Valleylab ForceTriad is an electrosurgical platform for operating rooms, ambulatory surgery centers, and procedural facilities. This device offers cutting-edge technology and features to meet the demands of modern electrosurgery.
The Covidien Valleylab ForceTriad is an electrosurgical unit (ESU) designed for a wide range of surgical applications. Electrosurgical units use electrical energy to cut, coagulate, and modify biological tissue during surgical procedures.
Valleylab ForceTriad Features:
Versatility
- Multi-Modality Platform: The unit is capable of delivering monopolar, bipolar, and LigaSure™ technologies. In a research context, this allows for the study of various surgical techniques and outcomes using a single device.
LigaSure™ Technology
- Tissue Fusion: LigaSure™ is a proprietary technology that uses a combination of pressure and electrical energy to create a hemostatic seal on vessels and tissue bundles. Clinical trials and studies have shown LigaSure™ to be effective in reducing blood loss in various surgical procedures.
Touchscreen Interface
- Human-Machine Interface (HMI): The ForceTriad uses a touchscreen interface designed to provide easy access to all its functionalities. Research on HMI designs in medical devices suggests that intuitive interfaces can reduce the risk of user error, thereby increasing patient safety.
Safety Features
- Return Electrode Monitoring (REM): This safety feature minimizes the risk of burns by monitoring the quality of the electrical circuit between the patient and the device. The importance of such safety mechanisms has been emphasized in various research papers focusing on medical device safety.
Adaptability
- Compatibility: The system is designed to work with a range of accessories and instruments. This feature can be crucial in comparative studies that look to standardize equipment and settings across multiple surgical teams or facilities.
Software Updates
- Valleylab™ Exchange Software Update System: This feature allows the unit to be updated with the latest software, ensuring that it remains in line with the most current clinical guidelines and research findings.
Research Implications
- Clinical Trials: The versatility and range of features in the ForceTriad make it an ideal candidate for clinical trials looking to explore new surgical techniques or to compare existing ones.
- Safety Studies: Given the device’s built-in safety features like REM, it offers an excellent platform for research into the efficacy of such technologies in reducing intraoperative complications.
- Human Factors Engineering: Research can be done on the effectiveness of the device’s human-machine interface in reducing the incidence of user error and improving overall patient outcomes.
The Covidien ValleyLab Force Triad Electrosurgical Unit is available Completely Refurbished by Venture Medical. The Valleylab Force Triad is revolutionary, as it provides a single energy system for both electrosurgical procedures and vessel sealing. The unit gives the surgeon precisely controlled energy and improved tissue effect. With monopolar, bipolar, and vessel sealing, the Force Triad is an all-in-one unit for your operating room.
Include:
- Monopolar switch
- Bipolar Switch
- Ligasure switch
- Covidien Trolley
- Rolling Cart
- Footswitch
- Accessories / Attachments
Specifications
General
- Output Configuration: Isolation output.
- Cooling: Natural convection and fan.
- Display: Three LCD touchscreens.
- Connector ports: LED illuminated Smart connector readers
- ForceTriad energy platform cart (FT900) Universal.
- Mounting cart (UC8009), and/or the UC8010 Over-shelf.
- Any Stable, flat surface such as a table or cart top.
- Operating room boom systems.
Equipment Dimensions and Weight
- Height: 25.5 cm (10 in.)
- Width: 45.8 cm (18 in.)
- Depth: 50.8 cm (20 in.)
- Weight: 13.6 kg (30 lbs)
Activation Tone
- The audio levels stated below are for activation tones (cut, Valleylab, coag, bipolar, and LigaSure Modes) and alarm tones (REM and system alarms) at a distance of one meter.
Alarm Tone
- Volume (adjustable): >65 dBA.
- Frequency: -REM: 660 Hz.
- Regrassp: Two tones: High= 985 Hz, Low = 780 Hz.
- Seal Complete: 985 Hz.
- Error/System Alert: Beep tone = 1400 Hz.
- Duration:
- REM: Two 1/2 second tones separated by 1/2 second for each REM event
- Reactivate/Regrassp: Four 175 msec tones-high, low, high–low separated by 1/2 second.
- Check Instrument: Six 175 msec tones – high, low, high low, high, low -Seal Complete: Two 175 msec tones separated by 175 msec for each Seal Complete event.
- Error/System Alert: Two 1/2 second tones separated by 1/2 second for each Error/ System Alert event.
Volume and Frequency
- Volume (adjustable): 45 to 65 dBA
- Frequency Cut: -660 Hz
- Valleylab: 800 Hz.
- Coag: 940 Hz.
- Bipolar: 940 Hz.
- LigaSure: 440 Hz.
- Duration: Continuous while the system is activated.
REM Alarm Activation
- REM patient return electrode: When the measured resistance exceeds the standard range of safe resistance (below 5 ohms or above 135 ohms) or when the initially measured contact resistance increases by 40% (whichever is less), the REM alarm indicator enlarges and flashes red and yellow, a tone sounds twice, and RF output is disabled. The indicator remains illuminated red and yellow until you correct the condition causing the alarm. Then, the indicator illuminates green and RF output is enabled.
Acceptable Resistance Range
- REM resistance measurements are ± 10% during RF activation and ± 5% when RF output is not activated.
- REM patient return electrode: 5 to 135 ohms or up to a 40% increase in the initial measured contact resistance (whichever is less).
- If the measured resistance is outside the acceptable range(s) noted above, a REM fault condition occurs.
REM Contact Quality Monitor
- Interrogation frequency: 80 kHz ± 10 kHz
- Interrogation current: < 100μA
- Interrogation voltage: < 12V RMS
Autobipolar
- The ForceTriad energy platform is equipped with an autobipolar feature that allows for the automatic activation of bipolar energy.
- Note: The autobipolar electrode function requires the use of the Valleylab E0018 bipolar Instrument cord.
- Autobipolar Specificaitons:
- Interrogation frequency: 80 kHz ± 10 kHz.
- Interrogation current: < 100 μA.
- Activation impedance: 20 Ω to 500.
- Deactivation impedance: User selectable: 1,500 Ω 1,800 Ω or 2,200 Ω
- Measurement accuracy: ± 14% of Full Scale activation impedance while keying active above 10 watts.
- + 50%, -14% of full-scale activation impedance while keying active at 10 watts or below.
- ± 5% of Full-Scale activation impedance while keying inactive.
- Keying delay: User selectable in 500 msec increments from 0 sec to 2.5 sec
Duty Cycle
- Under maximum power settings and rated load conditions, the ForceTriad energy platform is capable of operating a duty cycle of 25% defined as 10 seconds active and 30 seconds inactive, in any mode for a period of 4 hours.
- Caution
- Use of duty cycles greater than 25% (10 seconds active followed by 30 seconds inactive) will increase the risk that heat build-up under a return electrode may be high enough to injure the patient. Do not continuously activate for longer than one minute.
Low Frequency (50/60 Hz) Leakage Current
- Enclosure source current, ground open <300 μA.
- Source current, patient leads, all outputs
- Normal polarity, intact ground: < 10 μA.
- Normal polarity, ground open: < 50 μA.
- Reverse polarity, ground open: < 50 μA.
- Mains voltage on applied part: < 50 μA.
- Sink current at high line, all inputs<50 μA
Input Power
100-120 Volt
- Maximum VA at nominal line voltage:
- Idle: 52 VA
- Bipolar: 450 VA
- Cut: 924 VA
- Coag: 530 VA
- Input Mains Voltage, Full Registration Range:
- 90-132 Vac
- Input Mains Voltage, Operating Range:
- 85-132 Vac
220-240 Volt
- Maximum VA at nominal line voltage:
- Idle: 52 VA
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