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Old 06-01-2003, 03:36 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Electrocautery is used extensively in almost all surgical procedures. Care is taken to ground the patient. But if there was a high concetration of O2, fire is possible. I don' t know if inhaled anesthetics are flammable, but there certainly is flammable gas in the GI tract.
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