Traditional Cautery: A Narrative Review on Modern Cauteries through Old Window | Chapter 15 | Emerging Research in Medical Sciences Vol. 2
Background:
Traditional cautery is a well-known healing practice used in many diseases in
diverse cultures of the world since ancient times. Traditional healers,
practitioners and professionals continuously improved several structural and
procedural perspectives of this practice over centuries. However, numerous
modern cauteries and related devices used in modern surgery began to be
developed by Bovie and Harvey in late 19th century.
Objective:
This critical review describes briefly modern cauteries (new lights) used in
modern surgery that work on the same principles of traditional cautery (old
window).
Methods:
E-searches of relevant data (2000-2019) published in PubMed, MEDLINE, Google
Scholar, ScienceDirect and OvidSP databases were made using the Boolean
operators and keywords. Finally, 91 articles were retained for this narrative
review.
Results:
Several important components of traditional cautery were progressively
developed and improved by traditional healers and professionals and this developmental
process continued in modern surgery since 1988. Heating of traditional cautery
by fire was replaced by electric current in innumerable modern cautery devices
that generate variable energy power density for effectively destroying diseased
tissue together with other related functions with minor adverse effects and
complications.
Conclusion:
Although electrocautery and electrosurgery units with wider applications in
medical and other sciences use electric current in different ways to produce
energy for cutting and removing the intended unwanted tissue in modern surgical
settings around the world, traditional cautery mother of modern cauteries is
still used by healers mainly in the eastern world. Both are associated with
adverse effects and complications, and this perspective is calling for future
research to rectify the associated technical snags in modern surgery.
Author(s) Details
Naseem Akhtar Qureshi, MD,
PhD
National Center for
Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia.
Hamoud A. Alsubaie
National Center for
Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia.
Gazzaffi I. M. Ali
National Center for
Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Saud M. Alsanad
College of Medicine, Imam
Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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