In article <[log in to unmask]>, Peter Glover
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>A cautionary tale. The other day I was on my last case on a small minor
>ops. list,involving only diathermy of a skin tag behind a patient's ear.
>Whilst applying the heat, to my consternation I noted blue flames
>licking round his scalp, he was unaware of this. In between slaps on the
>head I asked him if he had any hairspray on, he denied this but said
>he'd put aftershave on that morning but it wasn't his beard that was on
>fire. The flames then spread to the paper towel under his head which
>then serenely lifted into the air and fell to the floor showering my
>treatment room in ash. I extinguished him without even a singe to his
>forehead. Luckily he was my last patient if the day.
>Sigh. Why do these things always happen to me?
Had you used an alcohol swab before cautery?
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Chris Pearson
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