Earlier this year through the generous support of the London Stock Exchange Group Foundation we have been able to purchase two infant diathermy mats for the paediatric surgery team at St George’s.
Surgical diathermy involves the use of high frequency alternating electrical current (HFAC) in surgery to either cut tissues or coagulate bleeding tissues, thereby minimizing blood loss. The new mats act as a way for the HFAC to return back out of the young patient’s body to the diathermy machine and are the perfect size for babies. They are certainly getting some use, as feedback from St George’s is that they are being used in all their operations on infants. Thank you so much for the generous grant LSE!
