Erbe USA Biomed technical training
Erbe was next on my list so off to Georgia I went to attend factory technical training for biomed. The main instructor was Rick Stewart, who may still be there, as far as I know. This
school was a bit different than Conmed, in that they recommend testing the unit output readings in current, instead of power, which is fine with me. We went over all their units in the
course, but it was the VIO 300D that caught my attention. It’s basically a pc based ESU, in
a nutshell, and is menu driven so to speak. And since my facility had 3 of the units, I decided early on that I would start to study this unit’s ability to deliver simultaneous monopolar
electrocautery. I paid particular attention to every detail and the mode was not even discussed, much to my dismay. While working with a unit I was able to find Erbe’s Twin Coag
monopolar sub mode.
In the above photo you can see the menu that allows you to select Twin Coag.
I was fairly excited about getting back to my hospital so I could look into this mode and
learn more in detail about it. I was starting to notice a pattern in the simultaneous coagulation arena; it seemed that this mode didn’t get a lot of attention. I was not quite certain why,
since this mode had an advantage over most generators that didn’t have it, two surgeons
could use the ESU at the same time. We all know the value of real estate around the OR
table during surgery.
VALLEYLAB Biomed technical training
It was a little over year or so later before I could attend Valleylab ESU technical training
for biomed, which was held in Arizona. It was shortly after the release of the TRIAD unit,